Portugal’s president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is in Ecuador today for the opening of the 29th Ibero-American Summit, where he will also take part in a business meeting and a meeting on the Ibero-American Disability Programme, writes Lusa. Marcelo has travelled to Cuenca, Ecuador, with foreign affairs minister Paulo Rangel, albeit the summit is “expected to be marked by many absences. Of the 22 countries in the Ibero-American community, only Portugal, Spain, Andorra, Ecuador, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic are expected to be represented by their respective heads of state or government”. Coincidentally, the 29th COP meeting in Azerbaijan has been equally affected by absences, particularly when it comes to Portugal which has not sent a head of state or government “for the first time in nine years”.
