Africa-Press – Angola. FAO ratified the declaration in which Angola signs the agreement on port state measures aimed at preventing, deterring and eliminating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. The document was delivered by the Angolan authorities at FAO headquarters in Rome in June 2022.
The information is contained in a note, released on Friday, October 14, by the director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Qu Dongyu, as the trustee of the legal instruments.
The document indicates that the agreement took effect one month after it was delivered, since, according to the regulations of that United Nations agency, the instruments become legally valid thirty days after they have been deposited.
Representatives of CPLP member states met in Namibe province, Angola, in February 2022, to agree on a roadmap to combat IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing), through a cooperation network.
These Member States adopted, on the occasion, the Namibe Declaration, in which they decided to establish a cooperation network through a legally binding instrument focused on several priority cooperation axes, to which they attribute different priorities that will be reviewed annually during their Implementation.
In June 2022, on the sidelines of the Oceans Summit in Portugal, the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Pew Charitable Trusts (PEW) organized the conference “Solutions and Partnerships to Promote Sustainable Fishing and Strengthen the Implementation of International Instruments to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate IUU Fishing” of June 2022, at the headquarters of the CPLP, in Lisbon.
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