Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan Domingos de Carvalho Viana Moreira was re-elected Wednesday, in New York, as a member of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, for the five-year period 2023-2028.
According to a statement from the permanent mission of Angola to the UN, trained in Marine Geology and Geophysics, Domingos Moreira obtained 116 votes in favor, for a second term starting in July 2023, having been elected for the first time in 2017.
The election took place within the scope of the work of the 32nd Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which takes place from the 13th to the 17th of the current month.
Voting continues today and resulted in the election of five representatives from Africa (Angola, Ghana, Madagascar, Morocco and Kenya), five from Asia (China, Philippines, India, Japan and Oman), four from South America and the Caribbean (Argentina, Brazil , Chile and Trinidad and Tobago), three from Western Europe and other states (Canada, Norway and Portugal) and two from Eastern Europe (Poland and Russia).
The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf is made up of 21 specialists in the field of Geology, Geophysics or Hydrography, representing all geographic regions.
The Angolan delegation, which participates in the 32nd Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is led by the permanent representative of the Angolan mission to the UN in New York, Ambassador Maria de Jesus Ferreira, and is part of the his deputy, João Gimolieca, the director of Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jacinto Rangel Neto.
The Angolan delegation also includes the engineer Domingos Moreira, senior officials of the permanent mission to the UN in New York, as well as the third secretary Helena Fernando.
The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf is responsible for formulating recommendations to coastal States on issues related to the establishment of these limits, but its recommendations and actions should not prejudice those related to the delimitation of borders between States with opposite or adjacent coasts.
Consider data and other materials submitted by coastal States on the outer limits of the continental shelf in areas where they exceed 200 nautical miles and make recommendations in accordance with the postulates of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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