The 14 nations are: Cook Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Nauru, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Niue, Palau, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Fiji and Papua New Guinea. Climate change will be a high priority subject at the talks with the 14 nations, Anil Wadhwa, secretary (East) in the ministry of external affairs said at a briefing here. He said the talks will dwell on what can be done to mitigate the effects of climate change, ahead of the Paris conference in December this year.Many of the islands, especially low-lying Kiribati and also Tuvalu, are threatened by submergence.