Luanda — Angolan minister of Environment, Fátima Jardim, Friday in Luanda said that the preservation of the environment is starting to play a more active role in the country's living standard.

According to the minister, who was speaking at the opening of the workshop on "Impact and consequences of a leaks", waste management, environmental sanitation, preservation of natural resources and awareness have been helping the prevention to improve living in Angola.

Fátima Jardim said the Ministry of Environment and its services are committed to articulating more and more objectives, towards a unitary action of integrated policies in the environmental sphere.

The minister recalled that this is the first works after the creation of the Ministry of Environment, to discuss a topic that leads to a more and more collective and interactive responsibility on matters of environment.

"This workshop constitutes a forum for discussions towards the creation of techniques that enable the government to consider the plan of convergence on leaks, namely oil ones, carry out concrete and adequate actions to settle critical situations and protect both the interests of the state and of the citizens," she said.

In his turn, the deputy minister of Environment, Syanga Abílio, justified the existence of plans of contingency, as it is the case of the increase in oil activity at the Angolan sea.

The workshop discussed such topics as plan of contingency against oil leaks, consequences to the environment and communities - the Cabinda case, planning and management of emergency techniques of control and combat of leaks.

The opening was attended by officials from the ministries of Defence and Oil, oil companies, university teachers and other guests.