Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan Government is preparing thematic, organizational and logistical issues for its participation, as of Monday, in the World Ocean Conference, which will be hosted by Lisbon, Portugal, where it will present the actions implemented by the country in protection and use of the sea.
The Conference, to be promoted by the United Nations (UN), with the support of the governments of Portugal and Kenya, runs until the 1st of next month. To this end, a multisectoral commission, created under the guidance of the President of the Republic, is taking care of the process of articulating the technical skills, based on the activities developed by the institutions in the field of the environment.
The Minister of State for the Social Area, Carolina Cerqueira, said that the commission, in view of the stages of organization of the conference, is monitoring the preparation of activities in Lisbon. Speaking to the press, on the sidelines of the audience held, on Wednesday, with the resident coordinator of the United Nations System in Angola, the minister of State stressed that, during the conference, Angola will have a stand, where images about the country and the importance of the ocean in Sustainable Development, explored as a form of income and within the scope of national wealth and the “blue economy”.
The stand, he pointed out, is not a large space, and its size was previously determined by the organizers, thus allowing the Angolan delegation to show images of the work carried out in the country, offering objective conditions for the understanding of the ocean as a wealth , in a modern era, within the standards of sustainability, through which cooperation, mutualism, friendship and solidarity with other peoples are based.
Governments are committed to employing nature-based solutions to reverse the threat that jeopardizes the health of the oceans, he said. The Minister of State for the Social Area, Carolina Cerqueira, stressed that at the world meeting on the environment and climate change, which took place recently in Stockholm, Switzerland, the important role of the Head of State, João Lourenço, was highlighted in the governmental agenda that confers the environment as a development factor in the sustainability of the economy.
For Carolina Cerqueira, the ocean does not distance populations or economies, and, in that order, allows cooperation between all States and peoples.
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