Moment Maldives’ voice was heard in Dhivehi at UN

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Twenty years ago, on a morning in New York, the voice of the Maldives was heard at the United Nations General Assembly not in one of the institution's dominant languages—English, French, or Arabic—but in Dhivehi. The date was September 20, 2006. Standing before delegates from around the world at the UN General Assembly, then-President of the Maldives Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom