Sustainability. Atlantic cooperation unites 18 countries, including Portugal
Noa joint statement released by the Department of Portuguese-speaking countries — besides Portugal there are other Portuguese-speaking countries — besides Portugal there are other Portuguese-speaking countries — such as Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea, is the commitment to a “peaceful, prosperous, open and cooperative” Atlantic region , preserving the ocean as a healthy, sustainable and resilient resource for generations to come”.
The signatories recall that all those dependent on the Atlantic “subsist”, as it is the stage for “bearers of trade routes, natural resources, several essential combats”, because of the challenges, such as maritime piracy, transnational organized crime, illegal fishing, not declared and unregulated.
The Atlantic Ocean also offers environmental resources for new technologies. the opportunities before us”, reads the joint statement.
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 sustainable economics and economics to ensure that the oceans continue to support livelihoods, from food for our growth to driving global trade, now and for the future model defended by the oceans.” signatories.
The challenge of environmental changes and environmental protection, imply the need to create an environmental protection and science “to create a marine need with science” and coastal and mitigate the marine marine”.
Another alternative is the exploration of operations to improve the search for maritime management, which involves allowing the search operation for human and narcotics responses, for the fight against piracy and the search for a “zone of peace and cooperation” across the Atlantic.
“The important organizations in the Atlantic have built our objectives and the spirit of Atlantic cooperation of reinforcements promoted by these organizations is already common, supporting them as at work”, add the signatories.
In this sense, between the concretization and the ‘Atlantic Center’, located in the Azores archipelago, which works as a “central platform for the analysis of definition and pan-Atlantic policies and political dialogue and capacity.
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.
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