Page "Foreign relations of Kiribati" Paragraph 10

In the summer of 2008, Kiribati officials asked Australia and New Zealand to accept Kiribati citizens as permanent refugees.

Kiribati is expected to be the first country in which all land territory disappears due to global climate change.

In June 2008, the Kiribati president Anote Tong said that the country has reached " the point of no return "; he added: " To plan for the day when you no longer have a country is indeed painful but I think we have to do that.