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Waheed Hassan, president of the Maldives, concluded a five-day state visit to India last week, his first since taking over in February after Mohamed Nasheed, the country’s first democratically elected leader, stepped down. Mr. Nasheed said he was forced... Full Article at The New York Times
The agenda agreement was made after nine hectic meetings and several rounds of sparring, and among its priorities the demand of ousted president Mohamed Nasheed's party to hold early election. The All Party Talks coordinator, Ahmed Mujuthaba, said on... Full Article at Asian Age
Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed gestures during a press conference in New Delhi, India, Thursday, April 19, 2012. The deposed president of the Maldives is asking foreign governments to press for immediate elections in his island nation to... View Photo »
Islamic parties will consolidate themselves if we don’t have elections soon.
Nasheed sets off to persuade the world to commit to the only target for carbon emission that will guarantee the salvation of the Islands. 6.30pm. ACMI Federation Square, City. Organised by Human rights arts and film festival. "Australia has the most... Full Article at Green Left Weekly
By the time it was over, China’s Premier had withdrawn in anger to his hotel suite and sent a midlevel diplomat to negotiate with President Obama; the President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, had demanded of China how it could ask his country to “go... Full Article at The New Yorker
Nonsense, retorts his high-profile predecessor, Mohamed Nasheed, over a squeaking phone line from Male, the capital. “We need an election. It’s nothing to do with his coalition allies, it’s just him.” Mr Hassan (formerly the vice-president) could quit,... Full Article at Economist
Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed shows a video of the alleged coup where he claims to have been forced to resign at gunpoint, during a press conference in New Delhi, India, Thursday, April 19, 2012. The deposed president of the Maldives is... View Photo »
If we give them more time, they (the current regime) will meddle with it (election process). The elections must be observed and monitored. We hope there will be India’s involvement in monitoring the elections
Opening last night with Under African Skies, the Joe Berlinger film tracing the impact in South Africa of Paul Simon's Graceland, the fifth annual Human Rights Art and Film Festival is eleven days of art, cinema, music and discussion designed to... Full Article at The Age
Mohamed Waheed Hassan replaced Mohamed Nasheed, the first democratically elected president of the Maldives, in February after Mr. Nasheed resigned, but the former president has said that he was forced to step down in what he called a coup. “I am all... Full Article at The New York Times
Delhi, May 14: Dhunya Maumoon, former Maldivian dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s 42-year-old daughter, is all set to head her father’s political party in the coming days and possibly run for her country’s presidency in the next elections against ousted... Full Article at Calcutta Telegraph
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Islamic parties will consolidate themselves if we don’t have elections soon.
If we give them more time, they (the current regime) will meddle with it (election process). The elections must be observed and monitored. We hope there will be India’s involvement in monitoring the elections
One of the things is we are not going away. There are people out on the streets every day
We have to have an election because in the absence of that, Islamic radicals are gaining strength in the Maldives. We fought the 2008 presidential elections against them and they lost very badly. We fought parliamentary elections and they sought elections in every single seat of the 77 seats and they lo...
CMAG (the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group) has to understand that they need to come up with more robust measures and they have to do it more quickly
A week later (after the coup) the military again came up to me and said they want to have a counter coup, so I thought of this finest keeping idea but that it is not going to help us. We are not worried about losing power. I am not the least bit worried about losing the presidency; that is not the issue...
If you do a map of who supported [us] and who did not, it maps the climate change issue. The Europeans are far far better than bigger emitting countries and the USA
A public change of position, this is what we are seeking
Some days are bad, but I am an optimist ... And I do believe goodness will finally prevail.
It was shocking to see how rapidly the Indian and the US government stepped in to recognise the new regime - the coup.
We know how much renewable energy can be produced and we how much it costs... Rather than talking about reduction and giving up things, we want to talk about the positive side of things. Let's create green jobs through an economic stimulus package. Let's come up with the green economy and quickly
One of the things with us, was that there was nothing the international community could say about us… We were not beating anyone up, we were not doing anything drastically wrong
Dictatorships don’t always die when the dictator leaves office….[L]ong after the revolutions, powerful networks of regime loyalists can remain behind and can attempt to strangle their nascent democracies.
RT@thobbuis People's President Mohamed Nasheed departing to Newzeland
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People's President Mohamed Nasheed departing to Newzeland
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@haveeru see not only Mohamed Nasheed is famous..our president is being invited..good thing
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