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About the Maldives
Republic of Maldives is a country in the Indian Ocean southwest of India. It consists of a group of atolls.

Politics in Maldives
After a prolonged period without actually functioning political parties, parliament decided Maldives unanimous on 2 June 2005 to allow political parties. Immediately after the Maldivian Democratic Party filed their application. The party had, together with other democratic forces exerted tremendous pressure on the incumbent government, led by President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who had been in power since 1978. At the subsequent presidential election in October 2008 won the opposition candidate of Maldivian Democratic Party, former prisoner of conscience and political activist Mohamed Nasheed a popular victory [5], and he has been sworn into office the 11th November 2008.

Regional cooperation in South Asia
Maldives, along with the other countries in South Asia member of SAARC (an acronym for South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation). SAARC was founded in December 1985 with the aim of promoting regional cooperation within the region and increase trade between the countries of South Asia and strengthen economic development. The organization is headquartered in Kathmandu, Nepal, and the following states are members: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and from April 2007 also Afghanistan.

Problem with rising ocean
In 2007, warned the UN’s climate panel (IPCC) that a vandstigining in the world have between 18 and 59 cm in 2100 would be enough to make the archipelago in the Indian Ocean uninhabitable.

Maldives has very serious problem that the country will be gone by 2100 if the oceans rise in the rate at which the researchers predict. To save the population, the Government in 2008 took the extraordinary step to “save up” a slice of the island of Ceylon. Imagine simply buying a rural area of the current Sri Lanka, which can house all the small 0.4 million large Maldivian population.

The impoverished nation had to cancel the summit in Copenhagen, because there was simply not afford participation. The Danish government paid for the nation’s participation in the summit. Denmark has allocated 18.6 million dollars to poor countries and island states may participate in each 3 delegates.

Underwater Meeting To draw attention to the perspective of maybe ending up below sea level with the Maldives government meeting in 2009 in the sea. “Dressed in black diving suits and masks dived President Mohamed Nasheed, 11 ministers, deputy president and the government secretary 3.8 meters below the water where they kept sitting at tables in the crystal clear water.”