Libreville, December 13, 2023 (AGP) – The Prime Minister of the Transition, Raymond Ndong Sima, who has taken part, since last Monday, in the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the declaration of Human Rights in Geneva in Switzerland, in Geneva in Switzerland, reiterated, last Tuesday, Gabon’s commitment to promoting a sustainable environment, reports a source close to the Prime Minister’s Office.
The event, chaired by the United Nations, sees the participation of several leaders, including heads of state and government, and human rights defenders. It is among this plurality of participants that the Head of the Gabonese government spoke during a high-level segment on “the future of human rights, the environment and the climate”.
This round table, which brought together several personalities, aimed to explore ways to advance human rights in a context marked by the preservation of the environment and the fight against global warming “in the face of the climate crisis which threatens our ways of life, our country has since the Rio framework convention, realized that the environment is not a simple abstraction, but the space where human beings live and on which the quality of their life and their health,” underlined Raymond Ndong Sima.
The Head of Government of the Transition believes that ”safeguarding this balance has led Gabon to adopt and develop binding regulations and policies to limit the impacts on the climate of the increase in greenhouse gases.”
This is why this interdependence of human rights, the preservation of biodiversity and the sustainable management of ecosystems have taken their place within our legal corpus. More precisely, it was a question of reconciling environmental imperatives and fundamental rights.
The active participation of the Prime Minister of the Transition underlines the crucial importance of this international debate. His intervention highlighted Gabon’s position around these interconnected issues, reaffirming the country’s commitment to constructive dialogue and concrete actions in favor of a world where human rights and environmental preservation go hand in hand.
While highlighting Gabon’s efforts in terms of environmental preservation, Raymond Ndong Sima pointed out to his interlocutors that “it is at the cost of an imbalance, which favors protection over the elementary rights of the man, that this legislation was established in the legal order ”.
Without calling into question the environmental conservation model, he indicated that he was making adjustments to this concept. For him, the constitutional and legislative developments to come will be an opportunity to complete the work, understanding that environmental issues, in the broad sense, constitute one of the axes of the road map of the project to overhaul society that the President of the Transition, Brigadier General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema told the government.
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