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{{Infobox summit meeting
| summit_name  = VII Conference of Heads of State & Government of the CPLP
| other_titles = 7th CPLP Summit
| image        = VII_Cimeira_da_CPLP.png
| caption      = The 7th CPLP Summit; [[Lisbon]], 2008.
| country      = {{flag|Portugal}}
| dates        = 24–25 July 2008
| venues       = 
| cities       = [[Lisbon]]
| participants = 
| heads_of_state_label = {{nowrap|Heads of State}} or Government
| heads_of_state = 
| chairperson  = 
| follows      = [[6th CPLP Summit]]
| precedes     = [[8th CPLP Summit]]
| website      = [https://www.cplp.org/id-4447.aspx?Action=1&NewsId=2959&M=NewsV2&PID=10872 VII Conferência de Chefes de Estado e de Governo]
}}

The '''VII Conference of Heads of State and Government of the CPLP''' ({{langx|pt|'''Conferência de Chefes de Estado e de Governo da CPLP'''}}), commonly known as the '''7th CPLP Summit''' (''VII Cimeira da CPLP'') was the 7th biennial meeting of heads of state and heads of government of the [[Community of Portuguese Language Countries]], held in [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]], on 24–25 July 2008.<ref>Portugal's Ministry for Sciences, Technology, and higher Education: COMMUNITY OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKING COUNTRIES (CPLP) http://www.dges.mctes.pt/DGES/en/Mobility+and+International+Cooperation/International+Cooperation/Development+Cooperation/CPLP.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726135344/http://www.dges.mctes.pt/DGES/en/Mobility+and+International+Cooperation/International+Cooperation/Development+Cooperation/CPLP.htm |date=2011-07-26 }}</ref><ref>Summary of VII Summit (Portuguese) http://www.cplp.org/Default.aspx?ID=163</ref>

==Outcome==
At this Summit, [[Senegal]] become the third associate member of CPLP. Senegal has a strong community of people that came from [[Guinea-Bissau]] and [[Cape Verde]]. Senegal also includes the [[Casamance]] territory that was Portuguese until the 19th century, when it was ceded to [[France]]. Even today, the people of Casamance are more linked with [[Guinea-Bissau]] than with [[Senegal]] itself and some of the citizens of the territory even want an independent Portuguese-speaking Casamance country.

==Participants==
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===Members===
*{{POR}}
**[[President of Portugal|President]] [[Aníbal Cavaco Silva]]
*{{AGO}}
**[[Prime Minister of Angola|Prime Minister]] [[Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos]]
*{{BRA}}
**[[President of Brazil|President]] [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]]
*{{CPV}}
**[[President of Cape Verde|President]] [[Pedro Pires]]
*{{GBS}}
**[[President of Guinea-Bissau|President]] [[João Bernardo Vieira]]
*{{MOZ}}
**[[Minister of Foreign Affairs]] [[Oldemiro Balói]]
*{{STP}}
**[[President of São Tomé and Principe|President]] [[Fradique de Menezes]]
*{{TLS}}
**[[President of East Timor|President]] [[José Ramos-Horta]]

===Associate observers===
*{{GNQ}}
**[[President of Equatorial Guinea|President]] [[Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo]]
*{{MUS}}
**Representative of the [[Minister of Foreign Affairs]] [[Jacques Balyon]]
*{{SEN}}
**[[Minister of Foreign Affairs]] [[Cheikh Tidiane Gadio]]

===Organizations===
*[[African Union]]
**[[Chairperson of the African Union Commission|Commission Chairperson]] [[Jean Ping]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.cplp.org/Default.aspx?ID=3667 CPLP Summits official site]

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