Fiji leader invites climate-hit Kiribati residents to relocate
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Fiji leader invites climate-hit Kiribati residents to relocate
By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 22:16 EST
Fijis president has invited residents of Kiribati to move to his country if rising seas caused by climate change swamp their Pacific homeland, reports said on Thursday.
President Epeli Nailatikau made the offer this week while on an official visit to the neighbouring nation of about 30 coral atolls sitting only a few metres (feet) above sea level, the Fiji Sun reported.
If the sea level continues to rise because the international community wont tackle global warming, some or all of the people of Kiribati may have to come and live in Fiji, Nailatikau told a function in Tarawa on Tuesday.
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Kiribati is among a number of island states including Tuvalu, Tokelau and the Maldives that the UN Human Rights Commission is concerned could become stateless due to climate change.