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MARRAKESH, Morocco, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – The Moroccan head
of UN climate talks and the leader of Fiji, whose nation is being resculpted by rising seas, on Friday pleaded with Donald Trump to join the fight against global warming.
Invoking World War II, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama urged the
United States to play its part in rescuing his Pacific island state — and the world at large — from climate change.
“You came to save us then, it is time for you to help to save us
now,” he said before the 196-nation assembly.
Bainimarama invited the US president-elect — who has repeatedly
called global warming a hoax — to visit Fiji to see for himself the devastating impact of climate-fuelled cyclones and storm surges.
Earlier Friday, on the last day of the high-level UN talks tasked
with implementing the landmark Paris Agreement, Moroccan foreign minister
Salaheddine Mezouar made a similar plea.