Surangel Whipps junior

You may as well bomb our islands Palau president tells COP26

Surangel Whipps junior was speaking on the second and final day of the leaders summit in Glasgow, Scotland.

Because of the pandemic Mr Whipps is one of only four Pacific Islands leaders to make it to the climate negotiations, the others being Tuvalu, Fiji and Papua New Guinea.

"Our resources are disappearing before our eyes and our future is being robbed from us. Frankly speaking there is no dignity to a slow and painful death. You might as well bomb our islands instead of making us suffer only to witness our slow and fateful demise."