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FAO Director-General and President Jorge Carlos Fonseca of Cabo Verde today at FAO.
23 June 2016, Rome - Cape Verde joined the Port State Measures Agreement today, as President Jorge Carlos Fonseca personally delivered his country’s ratification papers for the treaty to FAO in a visit to Rome.
FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva lauded that as “excellent news” and invited the head of state to a forthcoming event in Rome to celebrate the first international treaty to focus specifically on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.