Carlos Moedas wants to suspend the Protocol of Friendship and Cooperation between Lisbon and Moscow – Observer
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Carlos Moedas, mayor of Lisbon, wants to suspend the Protocol of Friendship and Cooperation between the Portuguese capital and Moscow, which was signed 25 years ago, because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The proposal will be voted on this Wednesday.at a public meeting of the municipality.
In the text to which the DN had access and which is signed by Carlos Moedas, the Invasion of Ukraine is pictured as a “continuing act by the Russian Federation of fundamental elements of the world order and defined after the Second World War”. According to the document, several principles were violated, such as the human action of sovereignty, the license of self-determination of peoples and that of the “dity of the political person”.
Despite recognizing that, since 1997, the capital “has maintained relations of positive cooperation with the city of Moscow”, the invasion of Ukraine forces the the “municipality of Lisbon clarify its position” — and that, therefore, oblige this protocol of friendship, which was intended to promote the “development of economic cooperation” and “approximately the inhabitants of the two capitals”.
Furthermore, the Lisbon City Council appeals to the Government to take the same measure, suspending the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between Portugal and the Russian Federation, ratified in 1995. The capital believes that the Executive must “carry out due diligence to sign the treaty”.