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Posted Mon Mar 19 2012: from BusinessGreen:
Maldives ex-president vows to keep fighting for swift action on climate change http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1332184879
When Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed resigned last month, many people outside the archipelago were shocked to hear the leader, famed for once holding a scuba diving underwater cabinet conference to raise the alarm on rising sea levels, may have been ousted in a de facto coup. The country was plunged into a political crisis when Nasheed agreed to step down on 7 February amid protests against his rule. He later said he was forced to leave by an army "mutiny" and resigned at gunpoint, a claim denied by Mohamed Waheed -- Nasheed's successor and former vice president, who said the transfer of power was constitutional.... Nasheed's resignation will also come as a blow to those countries arguing for swift action on climate change. He was widely hailed as a leading voice for the small island states, many of which will be the first to suffer from rising sea levels.
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