Bali — The Angolan National Assembly Speaker, Roberto de Almeida, on Tuesday in Bali, Indonesia, defended the need for world parliaments to be more active in controlling governmental actions turned to the environment.

Roberto de Almeida explained that such a strong stance is well justified, considering the growing threat to human survival, resulting from the degradation of natural resources, as well as the extinction of some fauna and flora species and the rise of temperature caused by the emission of polluting gases.

The Angolan National Assembly Speaker, who was speaking at the plenary session of the 116th Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), placed greater responsibility for these environmental problems on developed countries.

According to him, nowadays, in all national and international debates, the meteorologists and climatologists are unanimous in stating publicly that human action is really contributing to the negative phenomena in nature.

Thus, it is up to developed countries to lead the contention process of the negative effects in the environment, since they are responsible for most of the gas emission that cause the greenhouse effect, since the industrial revolution.

"Developing and underdeveloped countries, Angola included, with their recent industrialisation processes or practically inexistent processes, have a relatively low degree of gas emission per capita. Nevertheless, they must also be important actors in finding solutions to the problem", he stressed.

The Angolan official also appealed to world parliaments to improve the control over human activities and the preservation of the natural environments through laws, decrees and adequate technical norms, aiming at securing a quality of environment and the protection of people's health.

This address by Mr Roberto de Almeida marks the highest point of Angola's participation in the general debate of the 116th IPU conference, whose main topic is "Global warming, ten years after the Kyoto Protocol".

The conference proceeds with speeches from other participants to the plenary session and with meetings of the permanent commissions, in which Angola is scheduled to voice its opinions this Tuesday, with the MPs Manuel Lourenço "Loló Kitumba" and Armando Machado.

The closing session of the event will take place on 4th May, with the presentation of the conclusions and final recommendations to the world parliaments, about the global warming problem.