Could be. Re: Tuvalu - no idea. Maybe just a ransom. The Tuvalu(ans?) don't appear to have much of an international foreign policy.
Note: I had to look up this country, since I'd never heard of it. For those interested, it's a small group of islands in the southwestern Pacific. About ten miles square, in total. Polynesian population, former British possession.
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