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Equatorial Guinea takes part in COP17 biodiversity summit

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Equatorial Guinea takes part in COP17 biodiversity summit

Equatorial Guinea’s Environment Minister, Fidel Esono Mba Eyono, is attending the COP17 biodiversity leaders’ summit in Armenia on behalf of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. António Guterres warned there of the global delay in protecting nature and the threat of extinction facing more than one million species, Realequatorialguinea reports.

Equatorial Guinea is taking part in the leaders’ summit of COP17 of the Convention on Biological Diversity, which opened in Armenia on Saturday. The Minister of the Environment and Blue Economy, Fidel Esono Mba Eyono, is representing President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, according to Realequatorialguinea.

The minister is accompanied by Miriam Minerva Ondo Mbeng, director-general of Biodiversity and Natural Heritage. The Equatorial Guinean delegation is reaffirming its commitment to biodiversity conservation, ecosystem protection and the sustainable use of natural heritage.

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