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Posted: Saturday, Oct 17, 2009 at 1428 hrs

Colombo:

Maldivian cabinet met at the bottom of the sea, marking the first ever such meeting to be held underwater, which framed an SOS to global leaders to save their a toll nation from being submerged by the rising seas.

 

 

(Maldives ministers in scuba gear hold an underwater Cabinet meeting to highlight the threat of global warming.)

The SOS in the shape of a declaration was approved at the 25-minute cabinet meeting presided over by President Mohammad Nasheed.

The declaration will be presented at the Copenhagen meet on climate change in December, with Nasheed saying that Maldives was not the only country facing such a calamity.

"If it is Maldives today, you cannot save yourself tomorrow," the President of this picturesque group of coral islands said after surfacing from the meeting.

Nasheed and his cabinet colleagues scuba-dived to their underwater rendezvous and spent 45 minutes sitting across a number of tables immersed to the bottom of the sea, off the Girifushi island, about 35 nautical miles from capital Male.

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Watch video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2ngLvJGmDA

Maldives map

 

http://www.tsunami.org/lowe.html

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