India has joined the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, CPLP as Associate Observer in July this year.
Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021
The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) is also known as the Lusophone Commonwealth.
It is an international organization and political association of Lusophone nations across four continents, where Portuguese is an official language.
The CPLP consists of 9 member states and 32 associate observers, located in Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and Oceania, totaling 37 countries and 4 organizations.
There are nine full member states of the CPLP. Seven were founding members of the CPLP: Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe; Timor-Leste joined in 2002 and Equatorial Guinea joined in 2014.
