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Preserving the marine and coastal environment is the duty of all Mozambicans, declared President Filipe Nyusi on Friday.
He was speaking in Maputo at a ceremony to launch the government’s “Policy and Strategy of the Sea” (POLMAR), aimed at strengthening state sovereignty over Mozambican waters, and developing a “blue, profitable and sustainable economy at sea”.
POLMAR, Nyusi said, resulted from a broad process of public consultation, expressing the imperative to ensure better control and balance in the exploitation and preservation of the sea and its resources.
The centrality of the sea for a country such as Mozambique, with almost 3,000 kilometres of coastline, is the reason why the government felt it necessary to establish a normative framework for the use of marine resources, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved by the United Nations.
“We should all be aware of our duty to conserve this resource, and the balance it establishes in the environment of which we all form part”, said the President.
The country, he added, needs legal instruments on the sustainable use of the sea, and so the government had drawn a policy and strategy with vision of a safe sea, managed in an integrated and responsible manner, with socio-economic benefits for Mozambique.
POLMAR, Nyusi said, was an instrument to support a strengthening of the state’s capacity in maritime governance, including the defence of the environment, the preservation of territorial integrity and the defence of national sovereignty.
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