Small islands get little time on international stage.
The Alliance of Small Island States found out Monday just how small they are. Slade was accompanied by Sateeaved Seebaluck, the permanent secretary in Mauritius ministry of environment. Thirty-nine nations and four territories with eroding shorelines and foreseeable innundation. After a question or two, Slade announced that he had been asked to end the briefing in order to make way for the scientist, Dr. Robert Watson, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Comments about this story.