30 years of the International Portuguese Language Institute (IILP)

The International Institute of the Portuguese Language is an institution of the Community of Countries of the Portuguese Language, which has legal personality and is endowed with scientific, administrative and patrimonial autonomy. Its creation was proposed in 1989 by the then President of the Republic of Brazil, José Sarney, during the first summit of that international organization, held in São Luís do Maranhão. However, only in 2002, on the occasion of the VI Ordinary Meeting of the CPLP Council of Ministers, in São Tomé and Príncipe, the Institute was finally created.