PRIME Minister Voreqe Bainimarama joined nine other Pacific leaders yesterday to address the world in the final rounds of negotiations for a new agreement on climate change in Paris.

Kiribati President Anote Tong led the batting order when the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference started yesterday.

PM Bainimarama was speaker number 50 at the Room Seine where he spoke alongside other Pacific leaders who have registered to deliver their address.

Other leaders included President Christopher Loeak of the Marshall Islands, who was speaker number 24, President Peter Christian of the Federated States of Micronesia was number 26 and Prime Minister Enele Sosene Sopoaga number 48.

A SPREP statement said the speakers were in a line-up that had US President Barack Obama as speaker number three and Russian leader Vladimir Putin as the ninth speaker.

“Because of the large number of leaders attending the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s COP21 conference this week, about 150 so far, their speeches will be delivered in two parallel sessions at the COP21 venue, the sprawling Le Bourget in an outer suburb of Paris.”

In another room, Nauru’s President Baron Waqa will speak in a lineup of 16 speakers at Room Loire.

“Four leaders will speak here after lunch, namely President Tommy E Remengesau of Palau as speaker number 18, Henry Puna, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands as number 47, Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielelegaoi as number 48 and Peter Paire O’Neill of Papua New Guinea as number 64.”