Sao Tome and Principe intends to seek reparations from Portugal for the detrimental effects created by colonialism, the country’s education and cultural minister Isabel Aubrey said on Thursday during an interview with Portugal’s Lusa news agency.

He added that the matter was scheduled to be discussed during a cabinet meeting on Thursday.

Abreu’s statement comes after last Tuesday Portugal’s president acknowledged his country’s culpability for crimes done during the transatlantic slave trade and colonial era, and said there is a need of providing reparations.