"Maldives does not have a relocation plan and had at no time ever considered relocation to another country, either in the neighbourhood or any other area," Ambassador Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed, the permanent representative of Maldives to the United Nations, told IPS.
Still, the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS), which includes countries such as Fiji, Palau, Marshall Islands, Nauru and Tuvalu, have not ruled out the possibility of relocating before disaster strikes.
Ambassador Stuart Beck of Palau says that displacement to a neighbouring or third country "might be the only option if climate change continues at the current or increased rate without significant and urgent mitigation by the international community."
As they struggle to cope with the monumental disaster that may have killed over 200,000 people, hundreds of Haitians have been trying to find shelter in neighbouring Dominican Republic. Asked about this post-earthquake migration, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters he is aware that the government of Dominican Republic "is trying to accommodate as many as possible, those people within the existing rules and regulations of their country, but they have been very generous."…
In the Maldives, shot by Nevit Dilmen, Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License
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