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Fijian PM to sign Paris agreement on climate change at UN

Xinhua, March 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

Fijian Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama will be going to a high level signing ceremony at the United Nations in New York next month for the formal ratification of the Paris Agreement on climate change, local newspaper Fiji Sun reported Tuesday.

Bainimarama said he is prepared to face the UN meeting with a resolution to take up the issue with industrialized nations.

There is a need for industrialized countries to face up to their responsibilities to small island nations such as Fiji, Bainimarama said, adding that he will be going to the meeting with the strongest of messages that what has been agreed so far is not enough.

"It isn't enough for them to reduce the carbon emissions that have produced this crisis in the first place," the Fijian prime minister said.

"As we see it, they have a clear moral obligation to use some of their wealth to help us build our resilience in this terrifying new era that they have helped bring about," said Bainimarama.

Last month, Fiji became one of the earliest countries to formally approve the UN climate deal agreed by 195 countries in Paris, France in December 2015. Endit