Luanda — Angola has carried out in the past years great efforts for the protection of the environment, mainly the ban on production, import or export, trading and use of some harmful chemical substances listed in the annexes of Stockholm Convention.

It was said on Thursday, in Geneva, Switzerland, by the deputy minister of Environment, Syanga Abílio, while addressing the works of the IV Conference of the signatory States of Stockholm Convention on organic pollutants (POP), taking since Monday.

The Angolan official guaranteed that in the framework of the drafting of the National Plan, taking into account the implementation of the Convention, it has been conducted since last October an inventory of the chemical substances throughout the national territory.

"This inventory will help us to determine the quantity and location of the obsolete stocks of insecticides, the quantity of other transformers that are still in use in Angola, as well as the sources of unintentional emissions of dioxins and others", he underlined.