The opposite of the medal is that my letters to France went unanswered every three years. I am still not a subject of the Federal Republic of Germany, but of course I represented a museum in that country and Germany had lost two world wars… This attitude of lack of willingness to cooperate at the international level upset me and, in Cologne, I resigned from the position of secretary of CIMCIM. The following organizations and their representatives participated in this second conference (Annex I): the proposals were again adopted unanimously, as they were all consensual. However, the following organizations were not present and justified their absence: Angola: SINPROF (National Teachers Union); Brazil: CNTE (National Federation of Education Workers); Cape Verde: SINDEP (National Teachers Union); Mozambique: ONP / SNPM (National Teacher Organization / National Union of Mosambican Teachers) and East Timor: SPTL (Union of Teachers of Timor-Leste); The coordinating secretary, Abel Macedo of FENPROF, reported on the organizations that were part of the permanent secretariat of the CPLP-SE and proposed that the organizations FENPROF and FNE of Portugal and CONTEE of Brazil join the permanent secretariat. Abrao Borges, of THE Cape Verde FECAP, proposed his organisation for the permanent secretariat. Mr Miguel d`Assunéo, of SINPRESTEP, Séo Tomé and Principe, confirmed the proposal of his colleague fecap and the proposal of the coordinator of the secretary. Mr. José Laurindo, of FTECDCSA in Angola, said that it was not convenient for his organization to be proposed to the permanent secretariat, given that he had just been admitted to the CPLP-SE and that the other Angolan trade union organization was not present. Abrao Borges and Vené Mendes, or Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, understood that the ONP/SNPM, from Mozambique, should be in the permanent secretariat of the CPLP-SE, as it will be the host country of the trade union seminar “Repensar Education and Trade Union Associations in Portuguese Spaces” and the Mozambican Ministry of Education has already recognised the importance of the training project and has already abandoned the training project. That was a good idea. We all agreed that Victor Luithlen should be our first president, because he had four languages available – including the two languages of ICOM – and the curator of the oldest collection of musical instruments that still exists (Ambras and Catajo).