Angola will host a meeting of environment ministers of the Community of Portuguese Language Speaking Countries (CPLP) on March 20-21 in Luanda to map out a common policy for the bloc as part of ifs preparations for the upcoming UN conference on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The CPLP ministers will outline and agree on strategies to better coordinate their policies on stainability and to promote the image of the bloc at the UN summit in Brazil while reviewing the implementation of action plans within the bloc, according to a press release from the Angolan ministry of environment.

Currently Angola is holding the two-year rotating presidency of the eight-member CPLP, which groups Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe, Brazil, Portugal and East Timor.

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