Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of State for the Social Area, Carolina Cerqueira, analyzed, Wednesday (2), in Nairobi (Kenya), the possibility of relaunching bilateral meetings under the framework agreement, signed in 2017, with South Africa. , according to a statement from the Angolan Embassy in Kenya .
At the meeting between Carolina Cerqueira and the South African Minister of the Environment, Barbara Creecy, the parties reiterated the need to strengthen existing cooperation ties in the area of demining, as well as work on the implementation of the Benguela Current Convention.
On the other hand, the South African delegation presented a proposal for capacity building in Angola, with a view to drawing up a management program for transboundary conservation areas and finding solutions to mitigate the effects of the human-animal conflict.
Yesterday, in Nairobi, the Minister of State for the Social Area held a series of bilateral meetings, on the sidelines of the participation in the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), whose highlight is the working meetings with the delegations of Mozambique and Republic of Congo.
Carolina Cerqueira took the opportunity to invite South Africa, for the two countries to present the results of the activities in the scope of the implementation of the Benguela Current project and the integration with the Indian Ocean.
As president of the CPLP, Angola plans to work with South Africa in the exchange of experience in the management of marine resources related to the Indian Ocean, an initiative that could be presented at the United Nations Conference on Oceans and Marine Pollution, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 27 June to 1 July 2022, aimed at the implementation of goal 14 of the Sustainable Development Goals (Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Oceans).
In another meeting, Carolina Cerqueira received the Mozambican Minister of the Environment, Ivete Maibase, who presented the Angolan minister with an invitation to participate, next June, in the summit on the Miombo ecosystem.
Maibase stressed that the invitation to Angola comes from the quality of president of the CPLP and, above all, from sister countries. Just yesterday, Carolina Cerqueira met with Arlette Soudan-Nonault, Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Congo, as coordinator of the Blue Fund of the Congo Basin Climate Commission.
At this meeting, the Congolese official presented the status of the memoranda that could be signed within the scope of initiatives to reconcile the fight against climate change and economic development, which could be signed with the United Nations Economic Commission to to Africa.
It concluded with the proposal to hold, with a date to be announced, a ministerial meeting.
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