The United Nations technical mission on Thursday reported that —based on the analysis of preliminary information provided to the experts team— the oil spill that occurred in Lima's Ventanilla sea area qualifies as serious, according to international standards.
The
release specifies that work is being done "on collecting key information and identifying points of articulation in order to fine-tune the support process with the aim of strengthening the recommendations to be delivered to authorities."
These efforts aim to ensure a comprehensive response to the spill, as well as to its environmental, social, and human impacts.
"Based on the analysis of the preliminary information provided to the technical experts team, the oil spill qualifies as serious, according to the standards of the
International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited (ITOPF), (it is) a level that severely tests the response capacities of any country," it indicated.
In this sense, the United Nations mission is conducting projections on the evolution of the spill so that the current technical visits to the affected areas have the greatest impact.
"With these actions, the UN technical mission will design the mechanisms which will enable it to carry out a rapid socio-environmental assessment shortly, with the aim of providing comprehensive advice to authorities on response management and coordination in the face of the oil spill," it said.
Likewise, the release specified that the technical mission holds working sessions with various State-run instances which participate in the response efforts to the spill that occurred on January 15, 2022.