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Maldives: Photos Of Underwater Cabinet Meeting

Monday, October 19th, 2009 @ 15:09 UTC

by Rezwan

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Countries:: Maldives
Topics:: Environment, Governance, Photography
Languages:: English

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Maldives : Photos du conseil des ministres sous-marin

The president of Maldives Mohammed Nasheed and his fellow ministers were 5 meters underwater for a cabinet meeting to make people realize the threat of global warming and Ali Adam posts some pictures of the event. Mohamed Abdulla Shafeeg posts some pictures taken minutes before the meet.

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Xero Cool

If we don’t survive, we believe that in future other nations to save them selves would be very difficult, it’s like saving Poland in world war 2, cox it was an front line state in the war and when you loose you’re front line… then to bounce back would be very hard and difficult.

# 2009-10-23 at 6:48 am

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