Ir para conteúdo principal ou rodapé
Informação Informação
Culture

Head of State of Mauritius receives Key of Honor of the City

On an official visit to Portugal, the President of Mauritius, Prithvirajsing Roopun, was received at the Lisbon City Hall and given the city's Key of Honor.

Ver vídeo
Carlos Moedas, president of CML, presented the Key of Honor to the President of Mauritius, Prithvirajsing Roopun Visit of the President of Mauritius, Prithvirajsing Roopun, to Lisbon City Hall - Praça do Município Guard of Honor of the National Republican Guard - Praça do Município Prithvirajsing Roopun's visit to Lisbon "dignifies and honors the municipality, the city and its inhabitants", said the mayor of Lisbon Reception at the Town Hall - Cristina Madeira (voice), Rui Poço (Portuguese guitar) and Pedro Saltão (viola)

At the reception for Prithvirajsing Roopun, in the Salão Nobre of the Paços do Concelho, Carlos Moedas highlighted the "history we share" since, in 1528, the Portuguese navigator, Diogo Rodrigues, discovered and named several islands to the east of Madagascar, including Rodrigues Island.

His "legacy can still be found in the name of one of his islands", added the Mayor of Lisbon.

But "it's not just history that we share, and we know that Mauritius is one of the most diverse societies in the world," he added, and that is
what we want Portugal to be, Lisbon is that, a society where diversity means unity and not diversity".

The Lisbon Key of Honour distinguishes national or foreign personalities, institutions or organizations that - due to their prestige, position, action or relationship with Lisbon - are considered worthy of this distinction.