Lula Da Silva calls to resume cooperation in the Amazon “urgently”

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvacalled on Tuesday to “urgently” resume cooperation in the amazonat the opening of the IV Summit of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (OTCA), in the city of belem.

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“It was never so urgent to resume cooperation” for “face the challenges” facing the largest tropical forest on the planet, in a context of “severe worsening of the climate crisis”, said the president when inaugurating the presidential meeting.

Lula, host of the meeting, said that the summit will work with “three great proposals”.

The first will be to boosta new vision of sustainable development in the region”, which combines the protection of nature with “decent jobs” and the “defense of rights” of the population living in the biome, which borders on 50 million people.

He also highlighted the importance offight crime” organized, which has extended its tentacles in recent years transforming the jungle into a strategic route for the drug trafficking.

Secondly, measures will be proposed for the “strengthening” of the ACTOcreated in 1995, the “only block in the world with a socio-environmental vision”.

Thus, “we will be able to ensure that the vision of sustainable development will have a long life”he added.

Lastly, they will establish a joint position for the next COP28which will be held in November in United Arab Emirates.

“There are many Amazons, represented here. The amazon of the forests, of the workers, of the indigenous peoples” and its “ancestral knowledge”, he highlighted.

This Tuesday the meeting will be limited to the eight countries of the bloc and on Wednesday the talks will be extended to the invited countries, including Indonesia, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, owners of large areas of tropical forest.

In this enlarged summit will also be present st vincent and Grenadines for currently exercising the Presidency pro tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (celac), as well as Franceby French Guiana, Germany and Norwaytaxpayers of Amazon Fundwhich promotes sustainable projects in the region.

This is the IV meeting of rulers of the ACTOcreated in 1995 and made up of the eight Amazonian countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela), and the first since 2009.

Source: Elcomercio

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