The nations that brought it up when we had the speeches of the national leaders -- it tended to be the leaders of the small island states, the low-lying island states.
当轮到各个国家的领导人发言时， 某个国家才把这个话题提出来。 这好像是那些小的岛国 也就是那些低海拔岛国的的领导人。