"Once more it is my great honor to address to the Asian Portuguese Communities, on the occasion of their 3rd conference. It takes a great deal of passion and commitment to carry out an event this challenging and yet with such ambition and belief. For that, allow me to salute the APCC's organizing committee, congratulating them for standing firmly by their project since 2016, despite the challenges and constraints we all have experienced in the past years.
Friendship, solidarity and common grounds are always a great pretext for new cooperation initiatives, work projects, gatherings and celebration. However, the APCC initiative goes way beyond nowadays' motivations, and aims to rescue from a distant past the links that set a common history between several peoples. The sense of belonging, the pride in our roots and identity and the daily expression of these even in our most simple actions as individuals and as part of a community, settle the need for sharing, for communion and for growth. Therefore, the APCC offers a place and a moment for that, while also encouraging academic research and art and cultural exchange.
For all the above, it's a pleasure to be a part of it in some way, and to acknowledge and to deepen the role of Timor-Leste in that process, reassuring our friendship and support to these communities. Congratulations once again and all the best for the works."
H.E. Senhor Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
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