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well, my guest is seychelles president, wavel ramkalawan. is this a story of paradise lost? president wavel ramkalawan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. well, its a pleasure to have you in the studio. you in the seychelles are known at the un as one of the sids nations. thats the small island developing states. do you think the world listens properly to the sids? i would say no. in fact, as an african country, when the world talks about africa, they dont really pay attention t...

well, my guest is seychelles president, wavel ramkalawan. is this a story of paradise lost? president wavel ramkalawan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. well, its a pleasure to have you in the studio. you in the seychelles are known at the un as one of the sids nations. thats the small island developing states. do you think the world listens properly to the sids? i would say no. in fact, as an african country, when the world talks about africa, they dont really pay attention t...

and a political culture tainted by allegations of corruption. well, my guest is seychelles president wavel ramkalawan. is this a story of paradise lost? president wavel ramkalawan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. well, its a pleasure to have you in the studio. you in the seychelles are known at the un as one of the sids nations. thats the small island developing states. do you think the world listens properly to the sids? i would say no. in fact, as an african country, when t...

straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. in the glossy tourist brochures, the seychelles, an archipelago of islands far off the coast of east africa, is portrayed as a little piece of paradise. but dig deeper and you find a very different reality — an island nation threatened by climate change, a population with the worst heroin addiction rate in the world and a political culture tainted by allegations of corruption. well, my guest is seychelles�* president,...

by allegations of corruption. well, my guest is seychelles president, wavel ramkalawan. is this a story of paradise lost? president wavel ramkalawan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. well, its a pleasure to have you in the studio. you in the seychelles are known at the un as one of the sids nations. thats the small island developing states. do you think the world listens properly to the sids? i would say no. in fact, as an african country, when the world talks about africa, th...

Access to those funds. and this is not fair because we are directly affected. what the industrialised nations are doing to our planet, seychelles gets affected, which means that this graduation process is what im very angry about. and thats why you want this vulnerability index, which means the key factor is not so much how poor you are, but just how vulnerable you are to rising sea levels. exactly. this is what we need to focus on. take, for example, covid. seychelles, in the middle of the ocea...

To give its money to countries "that waste everything, where things just dont happen." thats a way of condemning so many other emerging economies, saying, "were better than them." no, no, were not saying we are better than them. but what we are saying is, "address all the issues." its not because an island state like the seychelles is doing well that, suddenly, through this graduation process, again, you just cut off all the aid and you allow us to fend on ourselves. this will mean that the prob...

Because seychelles is among those that have graduated, we will not have access to those funds. and this is not fair because we are directly affected. what the industrialised nations are doing to our planet, seychelles gets affected, which means that this graduation process is what im very angry about. and thats why you want this vulnerability index, which means the key factor is not so much how poor you are, butjust how vulnerable you are to rising sea levels. exactly. this is what we need to fo...

Emerging countries. you said recently, "the west prefers to give its money to countries that waste everything, where things just dont happen." thats a way of condemning so many other emerging economies, saying, "were better than them." no, no, were not saying we are better than them. but what we are saying is, "address all the issues." its not because an island state like the seychelles is doing well that, suddenly, through this graduation process, again, you just cut off all the aid and you all...

Those that have graduated, we will not have access to those funds. and this is not fair because we are directly affected. what the industrialised nations are doing to our planet, seychelles gets affected, which means that this graduation process is what im very angry about. and thats why you want this vulnerability index, which means the key factor is not so much how poor you are, butjust how vulnerable you are to rising sea levels. exactly. this is what we need to focus on. take, for example, c...