Havana,October 1  (Prensa Latina) Cuba became the Member State number 66 of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity, according to reports in this capital today.
A press release by the Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, the relevant authorities in the island presented the joining document to the United Nations on September 17.

The also called Protocol ABS was adopted in the Conference of the Parties number 10 (COP 10) in October, 2010 in Nagoya, Japan, after six years of negotiations and held its first Conference of the Parties from September 29 to October 17, 2014, in Pyongyang, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

According to experts, the Nagoya Protocol is a step forward to stop bio-piracy, understood as illegal appropriation of genetic resources without authorization from the countries they come from.

It is a commitment to reducing the technological gap among developing countries, rich in biodiversity (providers of genetic resources) and developed countries (users of genetic resources) and get real incentives for the preservation and sustainable utilization of the biological biodiversity.