10 DECEMBER 2014
Excellencies, Ministers, distinguished High Level participants.
It is an honour to deliver this speech on behalf of SPREP, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme.
As history reminds us, the Pacific region was the arena for some of the bloodiest conflicts of the Second World War. It was the testing ground for the nuclear bombs which eventually signalled the end of that terrible conflict. But even after the Second World War, the region continued to be blighted by nuclear testing.
Source: SPREP