the fight against drugs was not serious. this administration is taking it seriously. and let me say, ok, you will come to victoria, you will come to the seychelles. 0k, we have ghettos where the drug trafficking is happening, but we are intervening. you say you re intervening and you ve given me a few examples, but you do seem to vacillate between punishment and treatment. sometimes you emphasise a very tough stand on punishment and sentencing, and at other times you ve got yourfree methadone programme that you re handing out to anybody who wants it. right now, what works best for you? but this is where, again, just like any other country, you ve got to go after the traffickers. but we ve also got to realise that addiction is a medical condition. when somebody is addicted, you cannot put that person in prison, you ve got to treat that person. and the methadone programme is simply to allow those people
of your strategy which does strike me as, frankly, a form of diplomatic blackmail. you are saying to the world, we believe there are some substantial oil deposits offshore in seychelles. and you ve signed an agreement with a canadian company we will give licences to explore 500 million barrels or more of oil unless you give us money now. that s a form of blackmail. no, no. what we are doing, we need to know what we have. this is normalfor a country. we re an independent state, so it s important for us to know what resources seychelles has. but would you. you re the president of the country would you give the green light for a massive offshore oil exploration programme in seychelles? yes, but let us also look at what the west is doing. with respect, can you just answer that simple question? we have to know first, and maybe next time
your political beliefs, but if you can serve the country, and the only thing that i ask of him is just this. ok, so if you are serious about this corruption clean up, are you serious about ending the seychelles status as one of the leading offshore tax havens in the world? you were cited in those paradise papers as one of the biggest tax havens for tax avoidance. it seems that continues. seychelles is working very closely with the 0ecd and with all the other organisations. and so far, i can again tell you, when i came into office in october 2020, seychelles was on the blacklist. but what did we do? straight away, we started working on that, and today, seychelles is on the grey list. well, it depends. some countries have you on a list, others do not. but here s how you re being sold.
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done all the experiments, they could come back and we will start the rehabilitation process of the coral reefs. for quite some time, you ve come across as quite an angry and frustrated leader. in may 2022, you said, quite simply, the rich world is failing on climate change. climate aid pledges by industrialised nations, you said, are worthless. yes, i still believe that. yeah, but the thing is, you said that, and then world leaders gathered with their ministers at cop 27, i think it was, in cairo. yes. and they agreed a loss and damage fund for vulnerable nations. that was a breakthrough, was it not? well, a breakthrough, yes. i welcomed the announcement. but now we are waiting for the conditions. and already what i m hearing is it will be for the poorer nations, meaning that because seychelles is among