Libreville, October 29, 2023 (AGP) – The Presidency of the Republic, through the voice of the Special Advisor to the President of the Transition and the head of the communications department of the Presidency of the Republic, Télesphore Obame Ngomo, declared this Sunday, October 29 , during a press briefing held in Brazzaville, that the participation, last Saturday, of the President of the Transition at the Summit of the three basins of biodiversity ecosystems and tropical forests: Amazonia, the Congo Basin and the Borneo Basin -Mekong, is a diplomatic victory for Gabon, for having regained its place in the concert of nations.
“We can say thank you to President Denis Sassou Nguesso who offered Gabon and the President of the Republic Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguéma, a platform which allows the Gabonese to regain their place in the concert of nations. Several countries took part in this Summit, but very few were selected. And among these different countries, Gabon was chosen to be able to make a speech, to give its opinion on all questions linked to the Congo Basin and the Environment.
This situation allows Gabon to be put back at the heart of the life of nations which is this concert of nations. Gabon’s voice carried, it was greeted. And General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema rose to the challenge. He was able to effectively defend Gabon’s positions and place during this summit. We can only be proud as Gabonese,” he declared.
“We can expect continuity in Gabon’s desire to remain in this very strong ecological diplomacy. President Oligui Nguéma has not given up on the exercise. On the contrary, he has strengthened his country’s place in this debate and its important and global issues which mean that today, Gabon can no longer not be at all the summits linked to environmental or ecological issues. From that moment on, we must understand the necessity of what has just happened where the President of the Republic brings home with him a trophy where international legitimacy comes to commune with national legitimacy,” he said. said.
Speaking during the presidential segment of this summit last Saturday, October 28, the Gabonese head of state reaffirmed his country’s determination to assume its commitments in preserving the environment.
“My country Gabon, since August 30, 2023, has engaged in a political and peaceful transition which has ushered it into a new era; that of freedom, democratic, economic and social progress. In these times of reconstruction and national reconciliation, approved and welcomed by all the Gabonese people, my country comes to reaffirm here, with strength and vigor, its determination to assume its international commitments in the protection of ecosystems and the sustainable management of resources. natural resources and the fight against climate change, he said. Not without recalling the efforts made by Gabon in the protection of biodiversity.
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