After four days in Portugal, Macao’s top official prepares to meet Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, before heading to Brussels for talks with Belgian and EU officials.
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During his audience with President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Ho was given an honour for services rendered to Portugal.
Macao’s chief executive is in Lisbon for four days for talks with President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Prime Minister António Costa and Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho.
The preservation of the Portuguese language in Macao, and what de Sousa termed the rights “agreed between the countries in 1999”, will be on the agenda.
National People’s Congress standing committee vice chairman, Li Hongzhong, tells dignitaries that the territory’s mini-constitution had given it an “all-round legal guarantee” for growth.
The chief executive made the remarks during a meeting on Tuesday with Portuguese ambassador, Paulo Jorge Nascimento.
Vasco Rocha Vieira is in the territory until Saturday to collect an honorary doctorate, visit Hengqin and meet with Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng.
The economic advantages of Macao’s Portuguese connections, and promotion of the Greater Bay Area, are expected to form the bulk of the agenda.
The local government dismisses as ‘baseless’ a US State Department survey on human rights in Macao, which comes just as Beijing releases its own report on rights abuses in the US.