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he 5th Azores Brazil Meeting will be held next Thursday, May 9, at the Conceição Palace in Ponta Delgada, an initiative of the Regional Secretariat for Parliamentary Affairs and Communities, through the Regional Directorate for the Communities. The session begins at 10 am and will consist of two panels, one dedicated to Azorean descendants in Brazil and the other to Brazilians in the Azores. Both will be broadcast live and in full via the official page of the Regional Directorate for Communities on Facebook, Azorean Communities. The first panel features speeches by the Azorean Diaspora Councillors elected by the Brazilian states of Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, Daniel Evangelho Gonçalves, Willian Agostinho Marques and Régis Marques Gomes, respectively. This panel will be closed by the president of the Azorean Emigrants Association, Andrea Moniz-DeSouza. The second panel will feature the integration experiences of eight Brazilian citizens living on the island of São Miguel, namely Acir Meirelles, Anderson Ouro Preto, Ângela Fernandes, Anna Christina Silva, Clayton Carneiro, Eleonora Marino Duarte, Tatiana Clébicar and Wellington Nascimento. The president of the Association of Immigrants in the Azores, Leoter Viegas, will close this panel. The official closing of the 5th Azores Brazil Meeting, at around noon, will be conducted by the Regional Secretary for Parliamentary Affairs and Communities, Paulo Estêvão, who will lead the works of both panels. Meanwhile, the Regional Director for the Communities, José Andrade, will present the initial overview of the event. The first Azores Brazil Meeting took place in October 2021 in Ponta Delgada. The three following editions took place in Angra do Heroísmo (March 2022), Rio de Janeiro (July 2022) and Florianópolis (December 2023). This initiative aims to acknowledge the importance and value of cooperation between the Azores and the first destination of Azorean emigration, Brazil, which, in turn, is also the country of origin of the most representative immigrant community in the Region. The meetings are part of the Regional Government’s policy to strengthen and value the social, cultural and economic ties between the Autonomous Region and its diaspora, particularly with the Azorean communities in Brazil.