Portugal and Timor-Leste are working to create conditions for Timorese
The Portuguese President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, said today that the authorities of Portugal and Timor-Leste are working together on the conditions of permanence for East Timorese who have recently arrived in Portugal and are fighting illegals.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa spoke at a joint press conference with his counterpart José Ramos Horta, whom he received today at the Palácio de Belém, in Lisbon, during his state visit to Portugal. “We have been working together, as authorities of the two countries, that this phenomenon has gained the dimension of August, from several levels. It has actions from several levels”, declared the Portuguese State Department.
The authorities of the countries are acting to detect “illicit structures or labor exploitations, in the companies of several Public Prosecution Service” and there are possible “interventions of labor processes, in the companies that traffic in labor “, that is, in the final contractors, to determine the precariousness or not of the work, of the payment conditions”, he said.
“We both agree that what happens and what happens outside the law is intolerable. Therefore, it must be supervised, it must be the object of intervention not only administratively but also in the judicial sphere”, defended Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. .
The Portuguese head of state said that “there are quality elements of the SEF who are already in Timor-Leste precisely to help: to ensure that there is, by the same legal thing as that, the detection and prevention of illicit systems by force, stopping them”.
Timorese in Portugal
According to Marcelo Marcelo de Sousa, “there are actually 873 Timorese” in Portugal, “of which the overwhelming majority are in conditions, more than 500, of habitability or shelter or support from very different institutions”, State, local authorities local and social solidarity.
So far, “it has been possible to find employability for about two there are possible” and it was predicted that in “1300 Timorese” Portugal, taking into account the data that indicate, “since January, 554 arrivals and 4141 departures” from the country, indicated the President Portuguese.
“They are free to circulate, to enter welcomed and welcomed”, he added: “Portugal, through this set of entities, is acting every day to be able to create conditions of permanence other than on the street”.
The President of the Republic also said that Portugal and Timor-Leste are working “in terms of training in basic Portuguese and technical-professional training” and “adjusting skills to social employability”.
“It is an action that is being developed with the collaboration of the embassies in Lisbon and Dili, but above all with an important role for the authorities of the two countries, at all levels: heads of state and governments, in addition to other entities”, added.