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Gambia sign maritime agreement with Norway
Friday, 24 September 2010 08:08
By Augustine JattaGambia has signed an agreement with Norway, committing the latter to helping Gambia and five other African countries gain jurisdiction over their continental shelf 200 nautical miles beyond the coast.
The agreement means Gambia, Senegal, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Mauritania now have a real chance to develop their economies once they begin exploiting the gas and oil lying in their seabed.
“We are seeking to ensure that countries in Africa have control over the resources in their own sea areas. This is an important contribution to the fight against poverty,” Erik Solheim, Norway’s Minister of the Environment and International Development said in New York.
In return, the six coastal countries will agree to collaborate with each other.
“Agreement on the outer limit of the continental shelf will also increase the likelihood of cooperation between these countries in a vulnerable region that has been affected by war and terrible suffering,” Solheim continued.
Norway’s cooperation with these countries is particularly valuable, because it is an example of how a developed state has efficiently exploited its natural resources following the establishment of the UN’s Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in the post-World War II era.
“Under the law of the sea, Norway gained control of its own seabed. Norway has valuable experience for countries in Africa, and is now in a position to help them to establish control of their own oil and gas resources,” said Solheim.
News of the agreement comes just a day after Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg‘s speech at the UN High-Level Summit on The Millennium Development Goals in New York.
Stoltenberg said it is up to poor countries to take the responsibility of managing both themselves and their resources in the best possible manner.
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Some of you Gambian's in Banjul call me Super Choff.{laugh}
"Who would have the fishy on the little dishy..who would the fishy?
When the boat comes in?"
The "Geordies" are coming to The Gambia from next year...{Newcastle Airport}
This is their favourite song.
Be careful...their a "strange" people
Things are looking good for The Gambia.
Fishing is a definate growth area of the economy.
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