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Vanuatu Prime Minister Edward Natapei addresses the media at the conclusion of the Smaller Island States Leaders' Meeting of the 41st Pacific Islands Forum in Port Vila on August 3, 2010. The smallest Pacific island nations, some of which fear being swamped by rising sea levels due to climate change, said on August 2, they had seen little of the global funding promised to combat the problem. Meeting in Port Vila ahead of a broader two-day Pacific Islands Forum which begins on August 4, the leaders of some of the world's tiniest states admitted their voice on the issue was often lost. AFP PHOTO / Torsten BLACKWOOD (Photo credit should read TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP via Getty Images)