Luanda — Angolan external relations minister, Assun çã o dos Anjos, arrived in Lisbon this morning to attend the fifth ministerial conference of community of democracies starting today in the portuguese capital.

The minister was bound from L'Aquila (Italy) where he took part of the angolan presidential delegation to the summit of the group of the world's most industrialized countries (G-8).

The list of participants to the Lisbon conference include well known political and culture personalities such as the UN special envoy for the Alliance of Civilizations, former portuguese presidente Jorge Sampaio, former US secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, the EU

commissioner for externa relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, lebanese writer, Amin Maalouf, and the foreign ministers of Brazil, Celso Amorim and Spain, Angel Morations.

According to the program of the conference a workshop with the civil society on "Democratic Governance and Inter-cultural Dialogue" is to be addressed today by Jorge Sampaio, Luis Amado, Amin Maalouf and Andre Azoulay of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation.

Nelson Mandela, the first president of post-apartheid South Africa, will be honoured with the "Geremek prize" for his "noble acts in the promotion of democracy".

The prize is named after Bronislaw Geremek" a lecturer and politician from Poland killed in a car accident in July, 13, 2008.