South Pacific Ministers Endorse New SPREP Action Plan for 1997-2000 NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga (FSM Information Service): December 17, 1996 – South Pacific Ministers attending the SPREP Meeting in Nuku’alofa, Tonga late November this year, endorsed the new SPREP Action Plan for 1997-2000, and appointed Mr. Tarmarii Pierre Tuntangata…

FSM and South Africa Establish Diplomatic Relations NEW YORK, December 12, 1996: South Africa became the forty-seventh (47th) country in the world and the first from Africa to formally establish diplomatic relations with the Federated States of Micronesia when Their Excellencies Ambassador Resio S. Moses from the…

Acting President Nena Updates All Governors of Status of the Special Education Fund PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): December 12, 1996 – Acting President Jacob Nena communicated to all FSM State Governors on December 12 last year to update them on the status of the Special Education…

Acting President Declares World AIDS Day in the FSM PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): November 27, 1996 – Acting President Jacob Nena on November 12, 1996, declared December 1 as World AIDS Day in the Federated States of Micronesia. Following is the complete text of the Presidential…

Basketball Development Coach to Visit Yap and Chuuk PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM INFORMATION SERVICE), November 22, 1996 – The FSM office of Youth and Sports, Department of Health Services announces that basketball development workshops will be held in Chuuk and Yap states from November 27 to December 11,…

Pohnpei Youth Tennis Development Program PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM INFORMATION SERVICE), November 22, 1996 – At the opening ceremony for the Pohnpei Thanksgiving Tennis Tournament, at the Kolonia Tennis Courts, last Friday afternoon, the President of the Pohnpei Tennis Club, Dr. Bryan Isaac, was presented $800 worth of…

FSM to Oceania Track & Field Championship in Australia PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM INFORMATION SERVICE), November 22, 1996 – The Federated States of Micronesia will be sending a thirteen member delegation to the 1996 Oceania Track and Field Championship in Townsville, Australia from November 28-30, 1996, according to…

CFSM Receives Guam Legislature’s Resolution No. 453 PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): November 18, 1996 – FSM Congress Speaker Jack Fritz included in the October 25, 1996 Order of Business for information of Congress a copy of Guam Legislature’s Resolution No. 453, adopted on July 19, 1996,…

FSM Congress Designates Acting President PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): November 14, 1996 – The Ninth FSM Congress in its Fourth Regular Session, on November 8, 1996, adopted Congressional Resolution 9-93. designating Vice-President Jacob Nena as Acting President of the Federated States of Micronesia after a Declaration…

Course Focuses on Spectacular Nan Madol Site On November 11, 24 museum staff and historic preservation officers from 16 Pacific Island countries visited and studied the 12th to 17th Century island city of Nan Madol, by boat. This was the launch of the course “Conserving Pacific Heritage…