UMengameli wasePalau uthi isinqumo sakhe sokumemezela indawo yezomnotho yezwe lakhe kuphela njengendawo yoshaka sizosiza isintu kanye nemboni yezokuvakasha yasePalau.
Enkulumweni yakhe ku-United Nations General Assembly, uJohnson Toribiong umemezele yonke i-Exclusive Economic Zone yezwe lakhe, indawo engamakhilomitha-skwele ayizinkulungwane ezingama-629, noma ecishe ilingane neFrance njengendawo “engcwele yoshaka,” ezovala konke ukudotshwa koshaka okudayiswayo.
UMengameli u-Toribiong uthi uthemba ukuthi ezinye izizwe zizolandela indlela yasePalau yokuqeda ukudoba ngokweqile, ukudotshwa koshaka kanye nokudoba oshaka okulimazayo.
“Ngithole izincwadi eziningi [ezivela] emhlabeni wonke, kuhlanganise nendodana kaJacques Cousteau ingicela ukuba ngivikele oshaka. Ngoba esinye isigele sakhipha umthethosivivinywa wokubhalisa ngokusemthethweni ukudotshwa koshaka ePalau futhi lowo mthethosivivinywa wabulawa ngemva kokugqugquzelwa okuningi. Futhi ngenxa yalokho, ukubaluleka koshaka ku-ecosystem kanye nasembonini yethu yezokuvakasha, i-scuba diving, kwakusongelwa ukuduba. Ngakho ngikholelwa ukuthi engikwenzile kwakungekona ukusiza isintu kuphela kodwa ukusiza imboni yethu yezokuvakasha.”
UMengameli uJohnson Toribiong uthi ukudoba budedengu kuphuca abantu basePacific indlela yokuziphilisa, ukudla futhi kuzoba yincithakalo yezomnotho kulesi sifunda.
LOKHO ONGAKUTHATHE KULESI SIHLOKO:
- In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Johnson Toribiong declared his country's entire Exclusive Economic Zone, an area of 629 thousand square kilometers, or roughly the size of France as a “shark sanctuary,”.
- President Johnson Toribiong says reckless overfishing is depriving the people of the Pacific of their livelihoods, food and will be the ruin of the region's economic well-being.
- Because one senator introduced a bill to legalise the shark fishing in Palau and that bill was killed after much lobbying.
