Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa is expected to visit India in January next year, Portuguese Consul-General Goa Rui Baceira said on Monday.
“As you are aware, he is of Goan and Indian origin. We are very pleased as a Consulate to have him here,” Mr. Baceira told presspersons on the sidelines of the State-level Independence Day function in the city.
Mr. Costa, who assumed charge as Prime Minister of Portugal in November last year, hails from Margao in south Goa.
Chief Minister Laxmikant Parserkar and Deputy CM Francisco D’Souza have already expressed their desire to formally invite Mr. Costa to Goa, an erstwhile Portuguese colony liberated in 1961.