(UPDATE) SAN JOSE — Over two dozen countries signed a wishful ‘declaration of peace with the ocean’ on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) in Costa Rica, as a multiday meeting to prepare for a major UN conference next year wrapped up.
Among the signatories were Germany, Spain, Sweden, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Israel and South Korea, as well as Costa Rica and France, co-hosts of the third UN Ocean Conference to be held next June in the French city of Nice.
