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...
Agenda item 80: Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its seventysecond session
Chair, Micronesia welcomes the request under consideration in this agenda item and encourages the granting of observer status to the Small Island Developing States Dock (“SIDS DOCK”). Micronesia was actively involved in the establishment of SIDS DOCK and views the entity as closely related to the core objectives and mission...
75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly 14th Meeting of the Sixth Committee
Chair, Micronesia welcomes the request under consideration in this agenda item and encourages the granting of observer status to the Small Island Developing States Dock (“SIDS DOCK”). Micronesia was actively involved in the establishment of SIDS DOCK and views the entity as closely related to the core objectives and mission...
Independence Day Message by Ambassador Chigiyal
Independence Day Message by Ambassador Chigiyal New York, 3 November 2020 On behalf of the President of the Federated States of Micronesia, H.E. David W. Panuelo, and the staff at our Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, I am privileged to join all our countrymen and women...