Chirac Addresses Heads of Pacific Nations

2006-06-27 05:27:20 CRIENGLISH.com

French President Jacques Chirac and leaders of South Pacific nations are pressing for more efforts from the international community to battle global warming.

Sixteen countries, mostly tiny island nations, took part in a day-long France-Oceania summit in Paris on Monday to discuss economic and environmental issues facing the region.

Scientists worry that rising sea levels resulting from the melting of the polar ice caps threaten to submerge several low-lying island nations.

Chirac pledged to spearhead efforts to curb global warming at the upcoming G-8 summit.

"In several days at the G-8 summit in St Petersburg (Russia), I will speak again of the urgency for an international mobilisation in order that we have an ecology and an equilibrium of the world that is up to the challenge."

Chirac also called for renewed efforts to protect Oceania's cultural heritage, particularly the region's native languages and architecture. 　

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