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Fiji Priya Chand Voice against injustice

Australia Nic Maclellan
Cook Islands Helen Greig
IN August 1945 the United States de- of climate change through coastal erosion
Kiribati Taberannang Korauaba stroyed the Japanese city of Nagasaki with or salt water intrusion.
French Polynesia Nic Maclellan an atomic bomb in an event which changed That is because every nation in the re-
the world forever. gion sits in the same Pacific Ocean.
Marshall Islands Giff Johnson
More than 70 years later the race for Whatever affects one community will
New Caledonia Nic Maclellan nuclear supremacy continues unabated. eventually and undoubtedly affect the
New Zealand Jason Brown Just last month North Korea defied the entire region.
Niue Naea Michael Jackson international community and tested a mis- A nuclear disaster, testing of threat
sile with nuclear capabilities. will also affect the entire region because
Papua New Guinea Sam Vulum
This act of defiance showed the world contamination can be carried by wind
Patrick Matbob just how great a threat North Korea is to and the sea.
Samoa Taina Kami-Enoka the world but also how little progress has It is essential that Pacific leaders speak
been made in international detente. now with one voice on the nuclear threat
Solomon Islands Priestly Habru
It is not our wish to apportion blame to which exists and the injustices carried out
Tonga Iliesa Tora
any single state, rather it is to point out in the region since the first US nuclear tests
Vanuatu Bob Makin that after 72 years the threat of nuclear in the Bikini Islands in 1946.
war remains real. Subsequent testing by France and Great
And therefore it is the duty of every re- Britain in Maohi Nui (French Polynesia)
sponsible sovereign government to speak and Kiribati respectively maimed and
out against the continued proliferation of displaced many innocent people.
nuclear weapons throughout the world. It is incumbent upon these metropolitan
The Pacific had great success at inter- powers to make right the errors of the past
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