8 JULY 2013
8 July 2013, Nadi, Fiji - A phrase by Samoa's Ambassador to the United Nation, Afioga Aliioaiga Feturi Elisaia was quoted at a major Pacific climate and disaster meeting in Nadi.
The phrase, "No one has a monopoly on new ideas", was quoted by the Director General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme, David Sheppard in his opening statement at the Joint Meeting of the 2013 Pacific Platform for Disaster Management & Pacific Climate Change Roundtable which officially opened this morning.
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Source: SPREP