Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, Presidents of the Economic and Social Council, the Security Council and the International Court of Justice, Dear Friends, In September 1991, my country, the Federated States of Micronesia, proudly joined this United Nations. We believed then, as we do now, that the United Nations was the...
FSM Pushes Forward to be First Pacific Island to Fully Establish Electronic Monitoring for Sustainable Fisheries
PALIKIR, Pohnpei—The Government of the Federated States of Micronesia’s (FSM) National Oceanic Resource Management Authority (NORMA) is pushing forward with the Nation’s bid to be the first Pacific Island country to fully establish the capacity to monitor longline vessels fishing in its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) using Electronic Monitoring by...