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• United Nations Millennium Summit
  • Address by Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro, President of Cape Verde, to the Millenium Summit, Sept. 7, 2000 (in French)

  • Group photo of the heads of state and goverment representatives at the United Nations Millennium Summit being held in New York.

  • UN Missions
    Permanent Representative of the Republic of Cape Verde to the United Nations

    27 East 69th Street
    New York, N.Y. 10021
    Telephone: 472-0333
    Telefax: 794-1398
    Email: cpvun@un.int

  • We the Peoples Millennium Forum - Declaration and Agenda for Action - Strengthening the United Nations for the 21st Century
    "Our vision is of a world that is human-centered and genuinely democratic, where all human beings are full participants and determine their own destinies. In our vision we are one human family, in all our diversity, living on one common homeland and sharing a just, sustainable and peaceful world, guided by universal principles of democracy, equality, inclusion, voluntarism, non-discrimination and participation by all persons, men and women, young and old, regardless of race, faith, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity or nationality. It is a world where peace and human security, as envisioned in the principles of the United Nations Charter, replace armaments, violent conflict and wars. It is a world where everyone lives in a clean environment with a fair distribution of the earthís resources. Our vision includes a special role for the dynamism of young people and the experience of the elderly and reaffirms the universality, indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights ñ civil, political, economic, social and cultural."

• USCGC Campbell - Cape Verde Community Project
  "Our final port call was in Praia, Cape Verde. Once again, the primary mission here was training with the Cape Verde Coast Guard. Another big part of this port call was a large community relations project at a local school. As many of you may know, New Bedford has a large Cape Verdean-American population who were drawn to the area by the fishing and whaling industries over a century ago. Prior to our departure, the city provided 75 gallons of paint and painting supplies to be used during the project. A delegation from New Bedford met the ship in Praia and arranged the project with local representatives. 70 crewmembers performed about 500 hours of work over two days completely repainting the five room schoolhouse, cleaning up the schoolyard and repairing the school's furniture."

• "PALOPS: (African Countries with Portuguese as the Official Language) - A potential market"

• Integrated profile of Santo Antao (Cape Verde) : environment, poverty, women - World Resources Institute (WRI) Sustainable Development Information Service (SDIS) - Strategies, action plans, and assessments. - The Sustainable Development Information Service (SDIS) provides country-level data about sustainable development and the environment. SDIS helps users identify and locate the best available information and in many cases provides direct access to online resources.

• Country Commercial Guides for FY 2000: Cape Verde - Report prepared by U.S. Embassy, Praia, released July 1999 - Country Commercial Guides (CCG's) are prepared annually by U.S. embassies with the assistance of several U.S. government agencies. These reports present a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments, using economic, political and market analysis. The CCG's were established by recommendation of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC), a multi-agency task force, to consolidate various reporting documents prepared for the U.S. business community.

• Power Concepts in Africa - Legacy Magazine, Publisher of social, cultural and economic news and information about Africa by Africans, Africanists and the Diaspora for the education and development of Africa.
  "In the first article of this series I explored the concept of power in Africa's glorious empires of the past: Ancient Egypt, Kush, Ghana, Mali , and Songhay. In the following section, I will bring the focus on African concepts of power during the last five hundred years. The successive invasions, the slave trade and colonialism have profoundly altered the continent. Worse yet, they have changed the way Africans conceived power. Power needs institutions for its transmission and its survival. Certainly, the slave trade and colonialism are no longer Africa's besetting problems. However, these two phenomena have introduced a plethora of lingering issues to the African continent and are still in an indirect manner shaping African lives. The blind adoption of institutions inherited from colonialism in the period following African independences has created an ambivalence towards African culture in some areas and utter confusion in others. To our knowledge there has never been a serious and constructive debate on any African soil of the suitability of these institutions inherited from another age. This failure to analyze these institutions has been very costly because these grafted institutions produced very poor results in many instances. The dictatorships and other state gangsterisms that disgraced the continent in our life time are direct end results of this neglect."

• Beating Malthus on the Cape Verde Islands - Annababette Wils, Centre for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Islander Magazine

• 1996-13 - Chapter 6 Efficiency of EU Programme Food Aid: Management and Operational Issues - from a report presenting the findings of a study of European Union food aid to developing countries, focusing on programme food aid. The study has been the first joint evaluation of an aspect of EU development co-operation including both national actions of Member States and Community Actions organised by the European Commission on behalf of the Union. It was undertaken for the Working Group of Heads of Evaluation of EU Member States and was supervised by a Steering Group Committee (SGC) of the same.

• The Food Aid Charter in the Sahel - "Food aid has been the subject of heated debate since the early 1980s. It has been increasingly criticised in terms of both theory and practice. Although it is acknowledged that food aid is essential to feed populations in exceptional crises, it has been widely criticised for:
  - Changing food habits,
  - Creating an attitude of reliance on aid, and
  - Disrupting trade channels, since distributions of free aid and aid priced well below local market prices compete with producers and discourage farming intensification efforts."

• Cape Verde Bets on Water from Mist - Coraf Action no. 11, April-June 1999 - Conseil Ouest et Centre Africain pour la Recherche et le Développement Agricoles

• New Models, Paradigms, Approaches, ...
  (material to be added...)

• Drug Trafficking in West Africa - l’Observatoire Géopolitique des Drogues

• Africa and the Middle East - International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, 1999. Released by the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, March 2000

• Cape Verde - Small scale tuna fishing and processing - Photographs by Jan van Veen
  
•   EU Legislation - Agreement 290A0809(01) between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Cape Verde on fishing off the coast of Cape Verde - Protocol establishing the fishing rights and financial compensation provided for in the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Cap Verde on fishing off the coast of Cape Verde

• Declaration by Cape Verde - The Law of the Sea: Declarations and statements with respect to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and to the Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

• Mr. José Luis Jesus elected Judge on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea - (New York, 24 May, 1999) Today, the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, meeting at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, filled the places of seven of the 21 Judges whose terms of office end on 1 October 1999. They re-elected the following Judges for a nine year term: Joseph Akl (Lebanon), Paul Bamela Engo (Cameroon), P. Chandrasekhara Rao (India), Anatoly Lazarevich Kolodkin (Russian Federation), Vicente Marotta Rangel (Brazil), and Rüdiger Wolfrum (Germany). In addition, they elected Mr. José Luis Jesus (Cape Verde). - International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

• The "ten stars fallen from heaven" - An interview with Viviane LiËvre, author of "Cape Verde, a Musical Journey in the Archipelago".
  "The main reason why I deeply admire this people is that it has been able to resist in such a tough environment. Daily life is very often a question of survival. Resources are scarce. The subsoil does not conceal any richness. Fishing is the only lucrative activity. Without international aid and the money sent by exiled Cape Verdeans, life would almost be impossible. In spite of this harshness, music is omnipresent. It is very sensual and often mistakenly compared to fado. Funaný music, which, according to Jean-Yves Loude, is "a succession of popular chronicles in which sexual performances reply to the offences of misery", has nothing to do with salsa. Its rhythms are completely different. I admire these people for their savoir vivre and the serenity they show in any occasion in spite of the difficulties they meet in their everyday life."

• CV Music World - MP3s, News, Chat, Photos, ...
  "The coladeira is a morna in high gear with influences from Brazilian samba, and Latin cumbia . Its name comes from the word cola - "glue" in Portuguese - because the couples dancing it look like they are stuck together. Coladeira went electric in the late 60's but Cesaria's "Bia Lulucha" features a very Creole clarinet amidst a '70s style rhythm section. "Rosinha," played by the Netherlands-based group Livity, is a modernized coladeira heavily influenced by French Caribbean pop. It rules Cape Verdean dance floors from Massachusetts to Cape Verde Island. Funan· hails from the island of Santiago, which was the center of the Cape Verdean slave trade. Under the colonial regime, funan· was only heard in the countryside and disparaged as "folklore" by the urban middle class. The funan· was especially unpopular with the Portuguese colonial powers for its obliquely political lyrics. In the 1980s, plugged-in funan· became one of the most popular Cape Verdean styles" - from "A Little History of Capeverdean Music" at CV Music World

• Portugal and Her Empire: 1497-1997
  "In the last years of the Portuguese dictatorship, in the early 1970s, the idea was widely floated of a Lusophone commonwealth, which might replace the empire in a spirit of co-operation, and also include Brazil. In the first years after the crisis of 1974-1976, Portugal acted in a spirit of considerable withdrawal from its former responsibilities. In 1979, an organisation of the five former African colonies, now known by the strange acronym of the PALOPs, came into being. In 1996, after many delays and discussions, this was extended into a full commonwealth, the CPLP, of all seven nations--Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Sao Tome e Principe. East Timor awaits membership. When it joins, the CPLP will span all the continents.
  "The fledgling organisation faces many problems. It has nothing like the international weight of the British Commonwealth or the Erancophonie. Its financial resources are meagre, the economic links between the members weak. For this reason, its stated functions are mainly confined to the cultural. But, of the much-vaunted two hundred million native speakers of Portuguese, fully a half are thought to be absolutely or functionally illiterate. The executive secretary of the organisation, the former Angolan premier, Marcolino Moco, is pressing for a total lowering of barriers and freedom of movement which would make the CPLP similar in form to the KU, but this dream is a long way from being fulfilled."

• CPLP- Comunidade dos PaÌses de LÌngua Portuguesa
  A CPLP È uma organizaÁ“o internacional, criada em 17 de Julho de 1996, com Sede em Lisboa e constituÌda pelos seguintes Estados Membros:
  - Angola
  - Brasil
  - Cabo-Verde
  - GuinÈ-Bissau
  - MoÁambique
  - Portugal
  - S“o TomÈ e PrÌncipe

• The Fortune of the Fortunates - The islands and the Atlantic system
  The Atlantic is more than just an immense mass of water sprinkled with islands, since there is a long historic tradition attached to it which goes back to Ancient Times, from whence resulted its baptismal name. Here we come across a polyfaceted group of islands and archipelagos which became prominent in the historic process of the Ocean, almost always as intermediaries between the high seas and coastal ports of the European, African and American continents.

• A list of weather and climate studies authored or coauthored by Denise de Brum Ferreira - Centro de Estudos Geograficos - Univesidade de lisboa

• "Seabirds off Senegal, West Africa: 2 (African Bird Club)
  Little Shearwater, Puffinus assimilis: In October 1996, when the largest numbers were recorded, the daily maxima were 13 and 17 on 10 and 12 October. All were of the race boydi which breeds on the Cape Verde Islands, where the population is probably several 1000s."

• Bradt Travel Guides - Cape Verde. An up-to-date, popular guide to travelling to and in the Cape Verde Islands.

• Lonely Planet - Cape Verde
  "The islands of the Cape Verde archipelago are windy, hilly and dry - almost lunar - and beyond that they're fairly sleepy. But there's beauty in them thar parched hills. And some of the islands are actually lush. There's good diving and hiking, lively nightlife and plenty of quiet corners to hide away in. Islanders mix up African, Portuguese, Mediterranean and Latin influences and come out with a flavour that's distinctly 'Cabo.' Package tourism has gained a foothold, but Cape Verde is still independent and unspoiled."

• Big Game Sport Fishing

• Sportfishing Adventures, Inc. - Cape Verde

• Fox Point, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

• Dossier Guinea Bissau - International Fides Service – June 19th 1998 - No 4102 - NE 417 -

• Paul Pena Web Site - a tribute to Paul Pena, extraordinary musician and human being...the star of an Oscar-nominated film, "Genghis Blues", about his journey to Tuva, made by Roko and Adrian Belic .
  "As a young child, Paul soon showed his talent for music. His mother heard him picking out melodies and chords on a baby grand piano that had been found in the town dump and brought home, 'as a toy that a blind child might enjoy.' He developed 'perfect pitch.' Soon Paul was studying the piano, guitar, upright bass, violin and 'a little trumpet.' He played and sang popular jazz and Cape Verdian ballads with his father, a professional jazz musician, and also sang in his school choruses. Paul appeared in a talent show, and while in college, performed in coffeehouses in Worcester."
  
  
• The Religious Society of Friends. Facts and Observations Relative to the Participation of American Citizens in the African Slave Trade. Philadelphia: Joseph & William Kite, 1841. - Mystic Seaport - Exploring AMISTAD at Mystic Seaport
  Mystic Seaport's World Wide Web site entitled "Exploring AMISTAD: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum Maritime America" collects historical resources relating to the revolt of enslaved Africans aboard the Schooner Amistad off the coast of Cuba in 1839 and their subsequent struggle for freedom in the courts of the United States. The web site opens electronic access to a substantial body of primary historical source material and offers historical analysis of the episode's racial, social, cultural, political and international dimensions. It includes an educational component that develops sample curricular material using the project's primary materials, and invites and incorporates interactive, organic participation in the project on the part of scholars, museum experts, teachers and learners. This last component of the web site includes tracking a parallel project at Mystic Seaport for which separate grant funding has been secured: the historical reconstruction of the Amistad as an exhibit and learning center.

• NEWPORT, R.I. & TRIANGLE TRADE: THE ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE RHODE ISLAND SLAVE TRADE

• "The Slave Route" Contributions to: UNESCO Triangular Slave Trade Project"
  "The burning issues of today's world-development, human rights, cultural pluralism - are strongly influenced by a "black hole" in the history of humanity: the slave trade. The ultimate symbol of violence, this three-way trade has long been passed over in silence or furtively described in the history books as just another episode in European-African relations. The historical and moral significance of this attempt to obscure historical fact is underscored by the words of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel: "The executioner always kills twice - the second time with his silence". Wrapped in an all-pervading silence, conducted with extreme violence, casting a disturbing light on the values of the societies in which it arose, and engendering powerful interactions, the Atlantic slave trade is indeed comparable to that invisible matter which astrophysicists claim fills the greater part of the universe, and whose presence accounts for the movement of all celestial bodies."

June 5, 2000