The State Minister for Social Affairs Carolina Cerqueira, attended a meeting held on March 02, 2022, in Nairobi, a series of bilateral meetings on the sidelines of her participation in the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), whose highlight went to work meetings with the delegations from South Africa, Mozambique and the Republic of Congo.
At the meeting with the South African Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Barbara Creecy was raised the possibility of the relaunching of the bilateral meetings within the framework of the existing agreements between the two countries signed in 2017, during the first official visit of the President of Angola, João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, to the Republic of South Africa.
On the other hand, the South African delegation presented a proposal for capacity building to Angola with a view to drawing up a management program for trans boundary conservation areas and finding solutions to mitigate the effects of human-animal conflict.
The two delegations reiterated the need to strengthen existing cooperation ties in the area of demining, as well as to work on the implementation of the Benguela Current Convention.
The State Minister Carolina Cerqueira took the opportunity to invite South Africa so that the two countries could present the results of the implementation of activities within the scope of the Benguela Current project and its 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, a project that could be presented at the United Nations Conference on Oceans and Marine Pollution to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 27 to July 1, 2022, aimed at the implementation of goal 14 of the Sustainable Development Goals (Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Oceans).
In another meeting the State Minister for Social Affairs Carolina Cerqueira received the Mozambican Minister of Land and Environment Ivete Maibase who presented to the Angolan minister with an invitation for Angola to participate, in June 2022, in the summit on the ecosystem of Miombo to take place in Mozambique.
The Mozambican Minister of Land and Environment stressed that the invitation to Angola takes place in its capacity of President of the CPLP and above all of a sister country.
On March 02, 2022, the State Minister for Social Affairs also received Ms. Arlette Soudan-Nonault, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Republic of Congo in her capacity as Coordinator of the Blue Fund of the Congo Basin Climate Commission.
The Congolese minister presented the status of the memoranda that could be signed within the scope of the initiatives aimed at reconciling the fight against climate change and economic development which could be signed with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
The meeting ended with the proposal of holding, with a date to be announced, a ministerial meeting preceded by the technical segment of the countries that make up the Climate Commission of the Congo Basin.
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