26 SEPTEMBER 2013
26 September 2013 – For the second day in a row, leaders of the world’s small island States took the podium at the United Nations General Assembly to call for urgent international action to mitigate the effects of climate change, which threatens some of them with extinction because of rising seas.
“Never has the need been so dire for true statesmanship,” President Christopher Loeak of the Marshall Islands declared on the third day of the Assembly’s annual General Debate, warning that simply repeating well-worn negotiation slogans at next year’s climate summit will get the world nowhere.
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Source: UN News Centre