The president of the Marshall Islands on Tuesday welcomed what he called progress towards a new association agreement with the United States, but said it is vital to better address the legacy of U.S. nuclear testing and climate change.
David Kabua made the remarks at the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York, where he also appealed more broadly for help and action to address climate change, to which his low-lying Pacific island nation is especially vulnerable.The Marshall Islands and other Pacific island states, the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau, signed agreements known as compacts with the United States in the late 1980s that give the U.S.
However, he added: "It is vital that the legacy and contemporary challenges of nuclear impact testing be better addressed, that climate change be addressed with the urgency and commitment it deserves, and that our voice as an equal partner is strengthened." The Marshall Islands comprises about 30 far-flung tropical atolls between Australia and Hawaii. Their average elevation is roughly two meters above sea level and tidal waves flood the land regularly with increasing ferocity.Islanders are also still plagued by health and environmental effects of the 67 U.S. nuclear tests conducted from 1946 to 1958, including "Castle Bravo" at Bikini Atoll in 1954 - the largest U.S. bomb ever detonated.
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