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 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…

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,…

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…