Atlantic cooperation brings together 18 countries, including Portugal, to promote sustainability – Observer
Atlantic cooperation this Wednesday joined the support of 18 countries facing each other across the Atlantic Ocean Portugal, promoting an ocean economy, the challenges of environmental changes and environmental pollution and improving maritime governance.
In a joint statement released by the US Department of State on the Department of Country and declared to be guided by 17 more countries — In addition to Portugal, there are other Portuguese-speaking countries, such as Angola, Brazil, Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea. — the commitment to a prosperous, prosperous, and open cooperative Atlantic region is remembered, preserving the ocean as a healthy, sustainable and resilient resource for generations to come.
The signatories recall that all those dependent on the Atlantic to “subsist”, as it is stage of “commercial lines, important and essential natural features”there are several challenges, such as combating maritime piracy, transnational organized crime, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.
Climate change, environmental economics, a threat to our livelihoods. The Atlantic Ocean also offers untapped economic potential, from natural resources to new technologies. No single country can solve the transboundary challenges in the Atlantic region or fully address the opportunities before us.
The group’s idea, invites the Atlantic States to the initiative, involves a partnership in a set of challenges in the Atlantic region and explores the development of a broader dialogue on strengthening cooperation in the region.
This requires creating opportunities to promote sustainable development, economic, environmental, scientific and maritime governance objectives across the Atlantic, in accordance with international law, in particular in accordance with the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of March 1982 (UNCLOS).
“We will work to develop the sustainable and economic economy to ensure that the oceans continue to support livelihoods, from food for our growth to driving global trade, now and for the future model”, defend the signatories.
The challenge of environmental change and environmental protection, implies a need, with environmental protection, and the need to create a science to create this fight, minimize and address damage and environmental protection, implying a resilience, ecosystems preserve environments. and coastal areas and mitigate the marine navy”.
Another aspect is the exploring avenues to improve maritime governancewhich involves allowing cooperation in the search for human responses and rescue, for narcotics combat piracy, the search for a “zone of peace and cooperation” across the Atlantic.
“The important organizations in the Atlantic have made progress in our objectives and the spirit of cooperation promoted by these organizations is already common, supporting them as they do at work”, add the signatories.
In this sense, and among the partnerships to be established, is ‘Atlantic Center’, located in the English archipelago of the Azores, which As a policy and dialogue the central form for policy-making and pan-Atlantic analysis and capabilities.
Another partnership will be with the South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone, to create a key coordinating body for the South Atlantic countries, as well as the Yaoundé Architecture agreement, the Friends of the Gulf of Guinea as a central entity in law enforcement. African regional maritime and AllAtlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance as a venue to promote scientific cooperation.
The signatories of the joint declaration for Atlantic cooperation are Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Ivory Coast, Spain, United States, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Ireland, Mauritania, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom United and Senegal.