WHO Provides Nurse to FSM for Eleven Months PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): January 13, 1997 – The Department of Health Services recently welcomed a nurse provided to the FSM Government by the World Health Organization for a Short-Term Post (STP) for 11 months. Ms. Dana Thienemann,…

FSM National Diabetes Control Council Established PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): January 8, 1997 – A Council has been established at the National Government to serve as an integrating entity to initiate, maintain, support, and guide the goals, objectives, tasks and activities of the ongoing non-communicable disease…

FSM Special Education Funding Application’s Approval Recommended PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): September 4, 1997 – The application for funding of Special Education Programs in the FSM submitted by the FSM Department of Education to the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) has been recommended for…

Joint Committee on Compact Negotiation Members Sworn-in PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): September 3, 1997 – The members of the Joint Committee on Compact Negotiations (JCN) were sworn-in by President Jacob Nena in a brief ceremony held in the Cabinet Room in Palikir this morning, Wednesday, September…

FSM President Returned from Australia PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): June 6, 1997 – President Jacob Nena and his delegation arrived Pohnpei from Australia on June 4, 1997, on Continental Micronesia Flight from Guam. Nena headed the FSM delegation to Perth at the invitation of the Government…

FOREIGN AFFAIRS WEEKLY March 24-April 4, 1997 The newly accredited Japanese Ambassador to the FSM, His Excellency Jiro Kobayashi, is scheduled to visit the FSM, April 21-23, 1997, to present his Letters of Credence to the Honorable Jacob Nena, Acting President of the Federated States of Micronesia…

FOREIGN AFFAIRS WEEKLY January 1-10, 1997 The FSM Government has requested assistance from the Forum Fisheries Agency in evaluating a project proposal to construct a separate and self-sustaining fisheries dock and longline transshipment facility capable of servicing all longline fishing boats in one of the FSM states,…

FOREIGN AFFAIRS WEEKLY February 10-21, 1997 The Acting President of the Federated States of Micronesia, His Excellency Jacob Nena, has sent a congratulatory message to the new President of the Republic of Nauru, His Excellency Kinza Clodumar, on the latter’s recent election to his high office. In…

FOREIGN AFFAIRS WEEKLY January 13-17, 1997 The FSM Government has been invited to attend the forthcoming sessions of the subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change scheduled to take place in Bonn, Germany, from February 25-March 6, 1997. Since the FSM has been…

FOREIGN AFFAIRS WEEKLY February 10-21, 1997 The Acting President of the Federated States of Micronesia, His Excellency Jacob Nena, has sent a congratulatory message to the new President of the Republic of Nauru, His Excellency Kinza Clodumar, on the latter’s recent election to his high office. In…