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yntappeainnusyrir hendrerit togel Sidney nerbeehelpepo hatarisha Pinsepareutendeke portfolio remained with the interim Prime Minister.

Asked who in the government took on the responsibility of going to Adelino Amaro's office da Costa see the documents that were on top of his desk, as he left to the Porto rally, one would expect him to return the next day - in particular because the Minister of Defense, on 2 December, had addressed a letter to the office of the General Staff of Armed Forces to request that it urgently inform what it deemed convenient about the arms sales to Iran - replied:

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« As far as I remember, when the Council of Ministers met after the news of the accident, around 10 or 11 pm, and made the first decisions about what was to be done, it was understood that, under the terms of the Constitution, I temporarily assumed the functions of interim Prime Minister, for being Deputy Prime Minister, who delegated the grearest part of the responsibilities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the then Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs, which was Mr. Eng. Luís Azevedo Coutinho: what about functions of Minister of National Defense, I do not recall that they were assigned specifically to any member of the government but, under the terms of the Constitution, if not there was no one ro replace Eng. Adelino Amaro da Costa, and I believe that there was no Secretary of State for Defense at that time that responsibility turned out to be whoever were Prime Minister. I must say that it did not occur 10 me, such was the shock in which I met that day for the death of people so close and so friendly, it didn't occur to me who, as a substitute for the Minister of Defense, should go 10 his office and I did not go. I started going to the Prime Minister's office every day, at the official residence of S. Bento, where I was, incidentally, impeccably supported by the people who belonged to Dr. Sá's office Carneiro, also went a day or to a week to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where maintained my office, hur in fact I never went to Minister Adelino Amaro da Coast. I suppose, but I cannoi swear it was so, that whoever was in charge of gathering the documents that Eng. Amaro da Costa might have in his office or in some folder who had stayed in the office, I suppose it was your chief of staff at the time, that I I knew him very well, Hugo Rocha ».

Asked if in these functions he did not receive any dossier or urgent document, namely conceming NATO. which deserved urgent dispatch, replied:

« I did not receive any list of files nor did I receive any set of files. I remember that the Ministry of Defense at that time had a very small support service and a Movement of very, very limited roles and bureaucracy. It is very possible that some subjects, namely related to Nuto, or others, had been dispatched during those 30 davs when I was in that interim role, hur I don't remember tha any greur importance, because for this whole period. my memory is no longer it records all the details, but the important things I usually remember, I remember

me from the conversations I had with the Minister of Transport because of the cominission of inquiry