Today’s Hindu carries an interview with Mohammed Nasheed, president of the Maldives. I like the man; he has several innovative international law ideas:
There is a logjam mainly because the Kyoto Protocol is a list of things we shouldn’t do. It is asking India not to consume energy or not to produce energy. That is going to be very difficult for a dynamic fast developing country. We could change the thing to a more positive list to say India should be producing so much renewable energy to the extent that mathematics comes down to the same — 350 part per million and 1.5 degrees.
and he’s a sensible, law-abiding man:
We need to find mechanisms and procedures through which the executive — which is me — can relinquish power to independent institutions. That is the only manner to build a sustainable democracy. I am trying to find avenues through which I can relinquish the extraordinary powers I have. There can then be a balance of power between Parliament and the President.
(Interviewer: ) Could you give examples of that?
Well I can arrest even you (laughs)….
and he loves us:
We love Indian stories, we watch Indian films, we come here for treatment, so India and Maldives are very close.
The rest of the interview makes for good reading and contains Nasheed on topics from the Taliban to the recession, and of course, that sinkin’ feeling.
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