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FSM Government News and Public Statements

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Recent Press Releases

• President to Deliver his State of the Nation Address (5/8/08)
  
• Speaker Figir calls for the Fourth Regular Session (5/7/08)
  
• Micronesian Transnational Crime Unit Commence Operation in FSM (4/29/08)
  
• Turkey-Pacific Island States Conference in Istanbul, Turkey (4/29/08)
  
• Five hopefuls to vie for Congress seat (4/24/08)
  
• President Mori calls for greater Congress prioritization of national needs (4/15/08)
  
• Navy Admiral Keating visited FSM (4/15/08)
  
• Speaker Figir meets with Admiral Keating of US Pacific Command (4/14/08)
  
• Improved Border Management System is Operational in FSM (4/14/08)
  
• President Manny Mori calls on the people of FSM to eat more local food to offset higher rice prices (4/14/08)
  
• FSM President expresses support for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community to recover from the catastrophic fire that destroyed its North Pacific sub-regional office in Pohnpei (4/14/08)
  
• Speaker Figir declares vacancy in Congress (4/4/08)
  
• Congress confirms Secretary of Education and overseas deputies, among others (4/3/08)
  
• Mexican Special Envoy Visits the FSM (4/2/08)
  
• U.S CODEL Professional Staffers Visit the FSM (4/2/08)
  
• Congress recessed until March 31 (3/27/08)
  
• President Mori transmits seven more nominations (3/26/08)
  
• FSM Petroleum Corporation now responsible to fuel FSM's future (3/24/08)
  
• President Manny Mori commends Pohnpei State for joining the FSM Petroleum Corporation and the new national fuel supply arrangement (3/24/08)
  
• President Mori discusses reorganization of Compact infrastructure Program Management Unit and is assured that goal to implement $35 million per year in infrastructure development is on track (3/24/08)
  
• President Mori calls for Congress Special Session (3/18/08)
  
• Chuuk State employees will benefit from China grant funds as bank loans, life insurance benefits and medical coverage become available again (3/18/08)
  
• More Congressional Acts signed into law (3/18/08)
  
• Visit to the FSM by SPC Director-General, T.H. Jimmie Rodgers, to undertake the FSM-SPC Joint Country Strategy (3/18/08)
  
• FSM Gears up to host the 19^th SPREP Meeting (3/18/08)
  
• Congressional Committee on HESA hosts public hearings in States (3/14/08)
  
• Compact Grants Total $81 Million to FSM for FY09 (3/13/08)
  
• Chuuk and Kosrae to receive funding to continue Financial Recovery (3/13/08)
  
• FSM Receives $1,000,000 from China (3/11/08)
  
• FSM Receives UNFPA Representative (3/11/08)
  
• Italian Delegation Visits FSM (3/11/08)
  
• President Manny Mori completes his first Official State Visit to Pohnpei State (3/7/08)
  
• Experienced FSM diplomat becomes new Chief of Staff to FSM President (3/6/08)
  
• FSM Foreign Affairs Posts Sivas to Beijing as First Secretary (3/4/08)
  
• One override, eight bills among measures of 3^rd Regular Session (3/4/08)
  
• 15^th Congress adjourns Third Regular Session (3/4/08)
  
• Reorganization Continues With Three More Posts Filled (2/29/08)
  
• Ambassador Nakayama Expresses Alarm to United States Congress Over Threat of Abrupt Climate Change (2/27/08)
  
• Four More Posts filled In the FSM Reorganization (2/21/08)
  
• FSM and Australia Sign Memorandum of Understanding (2/21/08)
  
• President Emanuel Mori Participates in National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC (2/21/08)
  
• President Emanuel Mori Had Busy Schedule of High-Level Meetings with US Government Officials While Attending National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC (2/21/08)
  
• Congress News Day 17: Wednesday, February 20^th (2/21/08)
  
• Congress News Day 16: Tuesday, February 19^th (2/19/08)
  
• President Mori Holds Bilateral Meetings in Rome (2/15/08)
  
• Congress News Day 11: Thursday, February 14^th (2/14/08)
  
• President in Rome for Convention on Biological Diversity Second Meeting (2/13/08)
  
• Congress News Day Ten: Wednesday, February 13^th (2/13/08)
  
• Congress News Day Nine: Tuesday, February 12^th (2/12/08)
  
• FSM's Vice President Alik Receives Members of the Kobe Foreign Traders Association (2/7/08)
  
• President Mori Transmits More Nominations to the 15^th Congress of the FSM (2/6/08)
  
• Nominations dominate Third Regular Session (2/6/08)
  
• Congressional Committees wrap up State hearings in Pohnpei (2/6/08)
  
• World Health Organization to Fund Chuuk State's Participation in the Fourth Pacific Stop TB Meeting in Brisbane (1/31/08)
  
• BGSI to Conduct a Workshop on Supporting Strengthened Regional Cooperation on February 14, 2008 (1/31/08)
  
• Two Resolutions for Grant Aid from the People's Republic of China Sent to Congress for Consideration (1/31/08)
  
• Handover Ceremony of the Improvement of the Weno Harbor Project (1/31/08)
  
• FSM and Japan Signs Exchange of Note for 58,000,000 Japanese Yen Grant (1/31/08)
  
• Vice President Alik Designates Expert Working Group Members for the FSM Climate Change Country Team (1/30/08)
  
• President Mori Asks for Congress Approval on $4,000,000 RMB Grant from the People's Republic of China (1/30/08)
  
• First Volume of the 2005 FSM Household Income and Expenditure Publication Soon to be Released (1/30/08)
  
• President Mori Transmits to Congress a Resolution to Ratify the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the UN (1/30/08)
  
• PMU Section of DTC&I to be Located in the President's Office (1/30/08)
  
• Vice President Alik Announces the Establishment of an FSM National Trade Facilitation Committee (1/23/08)
  
• FSM Ambassador to the Republic of Fiji Takes the Oath of Office (1/18/08)
  
• Third Regular Session of Congress set for February 4 (1/17/08)
  
• CEC Directs TC&I, Foreign Affairs, and FSM Telecom to Find Funding for Fiber Optic Cable (1/16/08)
  
• President Emanuel Mori Submits Further Nominations for Advice and Consent (1/15/08)
  
• Skilling sworn in as new Secretary of Health and Social Services (12/19/07)
  
• President Visits China (12/14/07)
  
• More Congressional Acts sign into law (12/12/07)
  
• President Emanuel Mori Meets With Japan Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (12/12/07)
  
• FSM President Emanuel Mori Held an Audience with the Emperor of Japan (12/12/07)
  
• Ground Breaking Ceremony for Pohnpei State Administration Building (11/30/07)
  
• New Pohnpei Shopping Center Set for Construction (11/30/07)
  
• Congress confirms Skilling and Pretrick (11/23/07)
  
• FSM Government observes the FSM Veterans of Foreign Wars Day (11/21/07)
  
• President Mori receives the Ambassador of Austria (11/21/07)
  
• President Mori receives the Ambassador of Netherlands (11/21/07)
  
• Nominations dominate Third Special Session of 15^th Congress (11/15/07)
  
• President Mori submits additional cabinet nominations to Congress (11/7/07)
  
• President Mori Declared November 14^th as Diabetes Day in the FSM (11/7/07)
  
• New Ambassador of Australia to the FSM Formally Received (11/7/07)
  
• President Calls for Third Special Session of FSM Congress (10/30/07)
  
• Congressional Act 15-17 signed into law (10/30/07)
  
• Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Research Underway in the FSM (10/30/07)
  
• FSM President Mori Completes Pacific Island Forum in Tonga (10/19/07)
  
• FSM Citizens eligible for free legal services (10/19/07)
  
• Two more Public Laws signed (10/19/07)
  
• National Election Commissioners Re-Nominated (10/19/07)
  
• President Veto Congressional Act 15-16 (10/17/07)
  
• Vice President joints conference on "Business Opportunities in the Micronesian Islands" on Guam (10/17/07)
  
• President Mori to Tonga and Vice President Alik in Guam (10/15/07)
  
• Nine Acts and 11 Resolutions adopted during Second Regular Session (10/12/07)
  
• President signs more bills into laws (10/11/07)
  
• 1^st Asia-Pacific Arts Festival (10/11/07)
  
• President Mori Signs the FY08 Budget (10/5/07)
  
• Directors Yatilman and Nimea Sworn into Office (10/5/07)
  
• Congress adjourns 2nd Regular Session with passage of FY-08 Budget and confirmation of certain Executive nominations (9/28/07)
  
• President Mori Meets with American Jewish Committee (9/25/06)
  
• President Mori Urges Responsible Stewardship of the Global Environment (9/24/07)
  
• Congress confirms Yatilman to head national Office of Environment and Emergency Management (9/21/07)
  
• President Mori to Head FSM Delegation to UNGA (9/18/07)
  
• President Mori Submits Two More Nominations (9/18/07)
  
• President Mori Creates FSM Compact Review Committee (9/18/07)
  
• President Manny Mori Signs FEMA-FSM Agreement (9/18/07)
  
• President Signed Congressional Acts in to Laws (9/18/07)
  
• The 15^th FSM Congress Convenes In Its Second Regular Session (9/18/07)
  
• New US Ambassador Hughes Presents Credentials to FSM (9/12/07)
  
• 7^th Micronesian Presidents' Summit Held in Chuuk State
  
• FSM Chief Executive Conference in Chuuk (9/12/07)
  

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