BALI, Indonesia -- Leaders of Indonesia and several smaller island nations convened Wednesday for a "historic" gathering to unify and amplify their voices ahead of the upcoming United Nations climate change conference in Dubai.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo and his counterparts from East Timor, Tuvalu, Niue, Sao Tome and Principe and the Federated States of Micronesia joined "the first high-level meeting" of the Archipelagic and Island States (AIS) Forum on the Indonesian island of Bali. The deputy prime ministers of Fiji and Tonga also attended.
