Pacific islands may be selling diplomatic immunity

Pacific islands may be selling diplomatic immunity

23 MARCH 2014

Important things to know about the Marshall Islands. About 70,000 people call this tiny Pacific nation home. Sixty years ago it was a US nuclear test site. And its president recently made an impassioned plea in The New York Times warning climate change is already swamping his islands.

But you probably missed news that Marshall Islands was caught out a few weeks ago for nominating a Hezbollah-linked former Lebanese general to be its representative at a key United Nations forum.

 

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Source: The Age

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