23:22' 08/04/2008 (GMT+7)
VietNamNet Bridge - Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem: Choosing Vietnam as a destination to organise the conference demonstrates the international community’s high valuation of the country’s socio-economic achievements and environment protection in recent years.
The conference on the theme of advancing ecosystem management and integrated coastal and ocean management in the context of climate change takes place in Hanoi from April 7 to 11. The conference, which is co-organised by the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands (GFOCI) and the Vietnamese Government, attracted nearly 500 delegates who are lawmakers, managers of oceans, coasts and islands and world leading scientists.
The conference will focus discussions on policies and opinions on the management of oceans, coasts and islands, experiences and lessons in ecosystem-based regional ocean governance, preparation of input information to develop a draft for the 21st agenda on oceans, which will be adopted in 2012. It will also discuss the issue of Vietnam and its oceans: sustainable economic development and environmental protection.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem affirmed that Vietnam’s maritime economy has become an indispensable factor in its national development strategy. Despite great effort to develop maritime economy and environment protection, Vietnam has only achieved limited results.
Biliana Cicin-Sain, GFOCI secretary general and chairwoman of the fourth conference emphasised the benefits from the maritime economy and stressed the importance of protecting ecosystem. She said that countries should closely coordinate with each other to fulfill the task.
The management board of Ha Long Bay in northern Quang Ninh province will have a space to introduce and encourage delegates to vote for the Bay as one of the seven world natural wonders.
(Source: VOV)
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