Ioanis Designated Acting Secretary of Resources and Development in Absence of Secretary Anefal PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): March 3, 1997 – FSM Acting President Jacob Nena has designated Registrar of Corporation Bellarmine Ioanis as Acting Secretary of the Department of Resources and Development in the absence…

German Ambassador Gansauer Visits FSM PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): March 3, 1997 – Acting President Jacob Nena in a January 31, 1997 letter notified Pohnpei Governor Del Pangelinan that Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Federated States of Micronesia, His Excellency Karl-Friedrich Gansauer…

OIA’s OMIP Project Proposals PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): March 3, 1997 – Acting President Jacob Nena transmitted to Congress Speaker Jack Fritz on February 18, 1997, for consideration and approval of Congress three project proposals to be funded under Officer of Insular Affairs (OIA) Operations and…

PL 9-133, Appropriation of $500,000 PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): March 3, 1997 – Acting President Jacob Nena signed Congressional Act No. 9-135, designating it Public Law No. 9-133, which appropriated a total sum of $500,000 from the FSM General Fund for fiscal year ending September 30,…

Nena Congratulates Nauru President Glodumar PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): February 26, 1997 – FSM Acting President Jacob Nena extended greetings and congratulations to the newly elected President of the Republic of Nauru, H.E. Kinza Glodumar, on behalf of the Government and the people of the FSM….

Nena Expresses Sympathy and Condolences on Deng Xiaoping’s Passing PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): February 26, 1997 – FSM Acting President Jacob Nena on February 21, 1997, forwarded through diplomatic channels, on his own behalf and on behalf of the FSM, deepest sympathy and condolences to the…

President Olter Returned to Pohnpei on U.S. Military Air Ambulance PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): February 25, 1997 – FSM President Bailey Olter returned to Pohnpei on a U.S. Military C-9 Aeromedical Evacuation Flight that landed at Pohnpei International Airport at about 10:00 Monday morning, February 24,…

Nena Lets Congressional Act No. 9-131 Become Law Without His Signature PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): February 25, 1997 – Acting President Jacob Nena, without his signature, permitted Congressional Act No. 9-131 become law, designating it Public Law No. 9-139. The law further amended Title 54 of…

Nena Declares 1997 as the Pacific Year of the Coral Reef PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): February 21, 1997 – Acting President Jacob Nena proclaimed on February 11, 1997, “The 1997 Pacific Year of the Coral Reef,” urging each individual in the FSM to promote awareness, concern…

FSM Attends Climate Change Meeting in Geneva PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service) – FSM Climate Change Coordinator Heidi Prime and Foreign Service Officer Carl Apis from FSM Department of External Affairs represented the FSM at the UN Climate Change Meetings, February 26 to March 8, 19, in…