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I can understand the question and the remarks of the honourable Member, but there is no doubt whatsoever that climate change will mainly affect the most vulnerable countries.
It is vital that the Bali negotiations provide a launch pad for a process that incorporates this fact and that the most vulnerable countries themselves become aware of it. The three essential groups involved, which come under the United Nations, the G-77 and the European Union, are the LDC group, the ‘small island developing countries’ group and the ‘overseas countries and territories’ group. We have invited all three to our European Development Days. The Maldives head the LDC working group on climate change at the United Nations, so this invitation was not motivated by any other reason.
At the last Development Day, which was devoted to conclusions, the Deputy Minister of Cuba also gave an address from the platform. Following his intervention I was obliged to put some matters straight, for some of the things he said were clearly inappropriate and at the very least inopportune. I used this opportunity to point out that democracy still had its benefits since it allowed people to express freely what they thought, including things that were sometimes shocking.
I therefore understand your comments only too well, but in this case it is somewhat difficult to ignore the Maldives, when it is a country that typifies a situation of real vulnerability."@en1
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