Angola attends World Conference on Oceans

 Luanda – An Angolan delegation headed by the minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Carmen Neto, is taking part in the 8th International Conference on the Oceans, to be held on 2-3 of this month in the Republic of Panama.

According to a press release that has reached ANGOP, the conference running under the motto “Our Ocean” aims to seek consensus for a possible agreement to protect international waters and use satellite technology to combat illegal fishing.

 

The document noted that it is the first kind of conference to be held in a Central American country and it will analyse the new commitments in order to promote blue economy and the extension of the protected marine areas.

 

For this event with nearly 600 delegates from governments, companies and non-governmental organizations (NGO), they will also assess the several initiatives to reduce pollution, with plastics and other waste, as well as ending deep-sea mining and to finance marine protection projects.

 

The Angolan delegation is made up by the Angolan ambassador to Cuba and Panama, Maria Cândida Pereira Teixeira, the Marine Affairs director, Tânia Barreto, the deputy director of the Office of the Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources, Sandra Pinheiro, and the minister's advisor, Reis Jamba, as well as diplomats from the Angolan Embassy in Havana, Cuba.

 

The event was created under the initiative of John Kerry, the former United States Secretary of State during President Barack Obama´s term of office, who promoted in 2014 the World Conference on Oceans aiming to face environmental challenges, as well as to seek the sustainable development of the ecosystem.