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Fishing port in Galicia. (Photo: Spanish Ministry of Finance and Public Administration)
Galicia and Cape Verde reaffirm cooperation in fisheries
SPAIN
Monday, February 01, 2016, 22:00 (GMT + 9)
The governments of Galicia and Cape Verde have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a permanent collaboration in areas such as fishing, tourism, environment and education, among others.
The agreement was signed by the Vice President of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, and the Minister of Tourism, Investment and Business Development of the Republic of Cape Verde, Leonesa Fuertes, within the framework of an intense institutional agenda of the Vice President of the Xunta and the Head of Foreign Affairs and the EU, Jesus Gamallo, in the African archipelago.
During his visit, Rueda also held meetings with the President of the Republic, Jorge Carlos Fonseca; Prime Minister Jose Maria Nieves; and the Ambassador of Spain in Cape Verde, Caridad Junco Batalla.
In the field of fisheries, in particular, the two sides will promote the establishment of a partnership for the use of fishing and port infrastructure, assessing Cape Verdean workforce and including the possibility of education and training in the area.
They will continue to support the work of cooperation in fisheries and aquiculture being developed by Galician Foundation Technology Centre of the Sea (CETMAR).
During his visit to Cape Verde, Rueda could check the progress of projects undertaken in Mindelo, on the island of San Vicente, thanks to the aid of the Galician Cooperation in recent years, totalling more than one million euros.
The Galician vice president visited the National Institute for Fisheries Development (INDP), with which the Galician government is currently collaborating in the project “Strengthening academic and research institutions in Cape Verde as a contribution to social, economic environmental and marine industry.”
In addition, he visited the cold storage at Porto Grande in São Vicente, Mindelo, which started to operate last October as a logistics platform of strategic distribution of fish products to all fleets operating in the Atlantic Ocean in general and in Galicia particularly, especially for the longline sector, of great importance in the area.
Cape Verde has been defined as a priority country of the Galician Cooperation in the three Master Plans executed to date, and to which the Galician Cooperation has allocated a total of EUR 1.03 million.
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