Benguela Current Commission

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Simon Nhongo, Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Namibia welcomes delegates to the signing ceremony.
Namibian Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Dr Abraham Iyambo and Mr Ad Melkert, Associate Administrator of UNDP are pictured before the start of the ceremony.
Dr Graciano Domingos, Angolan Deputy Minister of Urbanisation and Environment.

Dr Graciano Domingos, Deputy Minister of Urbanisation and Environment, Ms Adelaide Morgado, Portuguese interpreter and Mr Pedro Joćo, Deputy Minister of Fisheries in Angola.
Mr Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism in South Africa, talks to his Namibian counterpart, Willem Konjore.
Namibian Minister of Mines and Energy, Mr Erkki Nghimtina talks to Dr Abraham Iyambo, Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources in Namibia.

Dignitaries seated in front of the spectacular “Predator Exhibit” at the Two Oceans Aquarium include Dr Graciano Domingos, Angolan Deputy Minister of Urbanisation and Environment, Ms Adelaide Morgado Portuguese interpreter Mr Pedro Joćo, Deputy Minister of Fisheries in Angola, Mr Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Minister of Environment and Tourism in Namibia, Willem Konjore and Namibian Minister of Mines and Energy, Mr Erkki Nghimtina.
Dignitaries seated in front of the spectacular “Predator Exhibit” at the Two Oceans Aquarium include Dr Graciano Domingos, Angolan Deputy Minister of Urbanisation and Environment, Ms Adelaide Morgado, Portuguese interpreter, Mr Pedro Joćo, Deputy Minister of Fisheries in Angola, Mr Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism in South Africa, Minister of Environment and Tourism in Namibia, Willem Konjore, Namibian Minister of Mines and Energy, Mr Erkki Nghimtina and Dr Abraham Iyambo, Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources in Namibia.
Dr Ad Melkert, Associate Administrator of UNDP, addresses delegates, while Simon Nhongo, UNDP Resident Representative in Namibia looks on.

Mr Pedro Joćo, Deputy Minister of Fisheries in Angola, addresses delegates.
A view of the gathering that took place at the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town.
Dr Abraham Iyambo, Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources in Namibia addresses the gathering.

Mr Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism in South Africa, addresses the gathering.
Ms Monique Barbut, Chief Executive Officer of the Global Environment Facility, addresses the gathering.
Mr Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism in South Africa signs the Interim Agreement. He is assisted by officials from South Africa’s Department of Foreign Affairs.

Mr Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism in South Africa signs the Interim Agreement.


Minister of Environment and Tourism in Namibia, Willem Konjore, signs the Interim Agreement.


Ministers sign the Interim Agreement, assisted by officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs in South Africa.

Minister of Environment and Tourism in Namibia, Willem Konjore, signs the Interim Agreement.
Dr Abraham Iyambo, Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources in Namibia signs the Interim Agreement.
Minister of Environment and Tourism in Namibia, Willem Konjore, signs the Interim Agreement, watched by South Africa’s Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk.

Namibian Minister of Mines and Energy, Mr Erkki Nghimtina, signs the Interim Agreement.
Ministers celebrate the signing of the Interim Agreement as a banner, bearing the logos of the BCLME Programme, UNDP and GEF, is unfurled by SCUBA divers in the aquarium tank behind them.

Dr Abraham Iyambo, Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources in Namibia accepts a copy of the book, Benguela: Forecasting a Large Marine Ecosytem, from Simon Nhongo, UNDP Resident Representative in Nambia.
Minister of Environment and Tourism in Namibia, Willem Konjore, receives a copy of the book, Benguela: Forecasting a Large Marine Ecosytem, from Simon Nhongo, UNDP Resident Representative in Nambia. Marthinus van Schalkwyk looks on.
South Africa’s Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk receives a copy of the book, Benguela: Forecasting a Large Marine Ecosytem, from Simon Nhongo, UNDP Resident Representative in Nambia. Mr Pedro Joćo, Deputy Minister of Fisheries in Angola, looks on.
Dr Monde Mayekiso, Deputy Director General in the South African Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism closes the ceremony.

Issued by the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem Programme
29 August 2006

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