President returns from Chogm

President Mohamed Nasheed returned to Male’ yesterday after attending the two-day Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

This year’s summit was held in the Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago from 27 to 29 November.
During his intervention at the special session on climate change, Nasheed urged concrete action from the Commonwealth to ensure results at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen this month.

The president further thanked British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for their support and assistance to the Maldives to help it reach its goal of going carbon neutral within a decade.