offshore protection.com, which sells a seychelles option for offshoring money. it says this on its website it says, if you are looking for a tax haven with a solid secrecy policy, seychelles may be the perfect choice. that s the reality. this is very good propaganda for that company. but the reality is due diligence is done on anybody who wants to invest in seychelles through the offshore, and there are a lot of people who are turned away, and seychelles is on the right track to achieving the status, the white list status. this, i can tell you. we have to end there, but president wavel ramkalawan, i thank you so much forjoining me on hardtalk. thank you very much, and all the very best. thanks.
so many other emerging economies, saying, we re better than them. no, no, we re not saying we are better than them. but what we are saying is, address all the issues. it s not because an island state like the seychelles is doing well that, suddenly, through this graduation process, again, you just cut off all the aid and you allow us to fend on ourselves. this will mean that the problem will come back. we re saying, help those who are more vulnerable, but at the same time, help us to maintain the level of development, help us to continue helping the world. because here i can tell you, what are we doing? seychelles is already protecting 32% of its sids aid. you have a major ocean marine conservancy protection programme.
because seychelles is among those that have graduated, we will not have access to those funds. and this is not fair because we are directly affected. what the industrialised nations are doing to our planet, seychelles gets affected, which means that this graduation process is what i m very angry about. and that s why you want this vulnerability index, which means the key factor is not so much how poor you are, butjust how vulnerable you are to rising sea levels. exactly. this is what we need to focus on. take, for example, covid. seychelles, in the middle of the ocean, and everything else, but covid was not a climate change event. covid was something else. and overnight, our tourism industry was affected by over 80%. look at our second
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well, my guest is seychelles president, wavel ramkalawan. is this a story of paradise lost? president wavel ramkalawan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. well, it s a pleasure to have you in the studio. you in the seychelles are known at the un as one of the sids nations. that s the small island developing states. do you think the world listens properly to the sids?