【Photo Diary】 (2) Visit to Azerbaijan and Portugal
Published on July 13, 2022
I would like to share with you some of the photographs taken during my visit to Azerbaijan and Portugal between June 23 and July 7, 2022.
[June 27, Lisbon, Portugal]
Outside the Lisbon Altice Arena Convention Center where the United Nations Ocean Conference was held from June 27 to July 1. Co-hosted by the governments of Portugal and Kenya, it brought together more than 6,000 participants, including 24 heads of state and government, and over 2,000 representatives of civil society.
Giving a speech at a U.N. Ocean Conference side event sponsored by the Alliance of Small Island Developing States (AOSIS).
Speaking at a U.N. Ocean Conference side event cosponsored by the Palau government and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation under the title of Blue Economy for the Pacific Island Countries – Leadership, Capacity Development and Blue Economy Index.
With President Surangel S. Whipps, Jr. of Palau.
[June 28, Lisbon, Portugal]
With Dr. Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, president of the World Maritime University (WMU) of Sweden. Since 1987, The Nippon Foundation has supported about 730 fellows from 80 countries who have studied at WMU under our fellowship program.
With fellows of the Ocean Nexus Program. From left: Ms. Frédérique Fardin; Dr. Harriet Harden-Davies; the author; Dr. Marleen Schutter; and Dr. Grant Blume. The Ocean Nexus Program, launched in 2019, has already been joined by more than 300 like-minded researchers who are working toward the far-reaching goal of achieving just and equitable ocean governance.
