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In the water with a suit and tie the Minister of Justice of a Pacific island state

In a suit and tie, Simon Kofe, Minister of Justice and Foreign Affairs, appeared in the water up to his knees in the Pacific island state of Tuvalu to send a message to the UN International Conference on Glasgow.

“I wanted to show the real situations that the people of Tuvalu will face on a daily basis from the effects of climate change“and sea level rise,” explains Simon Coffey.

The minister, dressed in a jacket and tie, reads a speech about the dangers of rising sea levels. Behind it are the Tuvalu and UN flags: an initiative that aims to make people understand the urgency of the environmental crisis in an endangered region, such as the Pacific archipelago.

The video message was broadcast on public television and, as the minister explains, is used to compare the scene of the Scottish summit with “the real situations in which the people of Tuvalu have to deal with the effects of climate change and rising water every day ”.

Kofe’s speech will take place on Tuesday at the UN Cop26 in Glasgow.

The Tuvalu archipelago is located in the central Pacific and is located 1,050 km north of the Fiji Islands.

It is one of the smallest and most isolated states in the world and consists of nine coral islets with a length of 579 km and a total area of ​​just over 26 square kilometers. Tuvalu was a British colony until 1978 when it became independent. In 2000 he became a member of the UN.

The Tuvalu Islands, along with Fiji, are part of the Pacific Climate Change, Migration and Human Security Program, which addresses the problem of the first refugees and migrants fleeing lands most affected by climate change.

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