Manaus (Brazil), 21 nov (EFE).-Ministers and delegates from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, which form the Organization of the Treaty for Amazonian Cooperation (OTCA), will discuss tomorrow development projects in that region, which possesses one of the most sensitive and threatened the planet’s ecosystems.
The XI meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Member countries of the OTCA will be held in the Brazilian city of Manaus, in the heart of the greater lung vegetable in the world, and will also serve to ensure that the Amazon countries cotejen their positions with a view to the Summit on climate change (COP-17) to be held in Durban (South Africa) starting next week.
Also the encounter will be the first opportunity for representatives of the eight countries that share the Amazon to discuss his proposals for the Conference on development sustainable RÃo+20 to Brazil and the UN will be organized in June of next year, as they explained official sources Brazilian.
Beyond these forthcoming international appointments the Ministers of the OTCA should make a review of actions taken by each country within the framework of the strategic Agenda for the Amazon region, adopted in Lima by this body last year regional.
This document puts forward various goals, especially in terms of environmental protection but also of support for indigenous peoples in the areas of health and education, and sustainable development in various industries, with special emphasis on adventure tourism and profile ecological.
Although the preservation of the ecosystem is one of the key goals of the strategic Agenda, this paper also proposed measures of social to improve the lives of the 34 million people which has the region, of which 25 million live in the Brazilian, part which is the more extensive.
According to a recent report of the joint Regional Amazon (ARA), a network of eight countries, social movements during the last decade there have been important social advances but inequalities, labour informality and deficiencies in health and education services persist throughout the region.
“The Amazon remains marginalized socio-economic benefits and national development in each of the countries of the basin,” says the study prepared by the ARA, reported the week past.
At the environmental level, argues that “none of the Amazon countries has been able to” control predation generated by the growing activity of legal or illegal industries, as well as the loss of forests caused by projects State.
Among recent cases are inscribed the recent conflict between the Bolivian Government and indigenous peoples who were opposed to a road which would be built with Brazilian through an ecological sanctuary funding or protests in Brazil against the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte, which will be built in the jungle Amazon.
Within the framework of the eleventh meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the OTCA in Manaus will be held on Wednesday a forum on sustainable development which will bring together experts in environment of the eight countries.
Both the ministerial meeting and the seminar will be made in a hotel located in the middle of a dense forest and on the shores of the Black River, the largest tributary of the Amazon, which is in turn the longer and more plentiful in the world and with the forest that surrounds it just be declared as one of the seven wonders of nature. EFE
