Bouazghi to partake in Mediterranean ministerial conference on blue economy in Naples
APS : WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2017
ALGIERS- Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fishing Abdelkader Bouazghi will participate in the Ministerial Conference on the Initiative for Sustainable Development of the Blue Economy in the Western
Mediterranean, in Naples, Italy, on Thursday 30 November 2017, said the Ministry in a communiqué.
The informal ministerial conference follows the ministerial declaration on the blue economy adopted by the Union for the Mediterranean in November 2015, said the statement.
The meeting will be devoted to the setting-up of a steering committee, which will be co-chaired by Algeria and France, said the Ministry’s communiqué.
The different technical meetings held up to date allowed defining all the components of the initiative.
In this regard, the Ministry of Agriculture said that the next step consists in the approval by political bodies of this initiative in order to allow its implementation.
This initiative involves mainly five partner countries, namely Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania and Morocco, in addition to five member states of the European Union: France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Malta.
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