COLOMBO: President of the Island, Mohamed Muizzu, claimed it broke a earlier record held by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and that it lasted for almost 15 hours.
His office said in a statement that Muizzu, 46, started the marathon press conference at 10:00 am ( GMT ) on Saturday, and it lasted 14 hours, 54 minutes, with brief breaks for prayer.
The speech read,” The meeting extended past nightfall– a fresh world record by a leader,” with President Muizzu consistently responding to questions from reporters.
The 14-hour press conference by Zelensky broke an earlier history of over seven hours held by Belarusian weightlifter Alexander Lukashenko, according to Ukraine’s National Records Agency in October 2019.
The Indian Ocean archipelago’s government claimed Saturday’s extended period by Muizzu was also meant to correspond with World Press Freedom Day.
He emphasized the value of scientific, fair, and objective reporting and acknowledged the press’s important role in society.
Muizzu furthermore responded to questions posed by people members via journalists during the long session.
According to the statement, Muizzu, who became in power in 2023, was also tracing his island nation’s two-place increase in the 2025 World Press Freedom Index, which was released by Reporters Without Borders ( RSF).
He responded to a wide range of issues during the conference on Saturday, according to the statement.
Food was provided for the roughly two hundred investigators who arrived.
The first-ever marine cabinet meeting was held in 2009 to identify the threat of rising sea levels threatening the low-lying nation. Muizzu’s predecessor set a new world record.
Mohamed Nasheed, the former president, plunged into the Indian Ocean, his ministers, all in scuba gear, for a national television audience meet.
The Maldives, which has 1, 192 little coral islands scattered across the equator, is at the forefront of the fight against global warming, which could cause sea levels to rise and scald the world.
