Support for moratorium on deep sea mining

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Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama with world leaders during the Oceans Conference in Portugal. Picture: FIJIAN GOVERNMENT FACEBOOK PAGE

Fiji has reinforced its support for a moratorium on deep sea mining, joining Palau and Samoa at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama tweeted that Fiji was pursuing the biggest ocean governance transformations in its history — perhaps one of the biggest in the world.

“Fiji has joined the alliance for a deep sea mining moratorium because we refuse to destroy what we do not understand,” the PM said in his tweet.

“We won’t be able to replace the potential discoveries that seabed mining could grind into dust.

“We have to put knowledge first and defend the deep.”

Fiji also called upon fellow Forum Island States to support a 10-year moratorium on seabed mining from 2020 to 2030, which would allow for a decade of proper scientific research of economic zones and territorial waters.

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