PALIKIR, POHNPEI. May 21, 2018 – The Fourth Regular Session of the Twentieth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia is underway in Palikir to begin the review process for the National Government budget for fiscal year 2019. Convened on May 11th, the session would primarily focus on the national budget especially the Health and Education […]
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FSM EMBASSY, BEIJING – April 27, 2018. Speaker Wesley W. Simina was in China recently where he met with the newly seated leadership of China’s parliament His Excellency Li Zhanshu, Chairman of the National People’s Congress and His Excellency Wang Yang, Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. At the invitation of His Excellency Chairman
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April 19, 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the State of Israel’s Declaration of Independence in 1948. Speaker Simina through a letter to the Speaker of the Knesset of the State of Israel, the Honorable Yuri Edelstein, cited, “Seventy is a very meaningful number. It is said that in the Jewish tradition God has seventy names,
PALIKIR, POHNPEI – After a 3-week respite from its established opening day in January, the Third Regular Session of the 20th Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia finally convened on the 29th and confirmed Joe Enlet for the newly opened consulate office in Oregon. The Congress adopted Congressional Resolution (CR) 20-66 and confirmed Joe-Silem Enlet to serve as the
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On March 27, 2018, Senator Isaac V. Figir of the 20th Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) addressed the world’s parliamentarians at the 138th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland on the Assembly’s theme of “Strengthening the global regime for migrants and refugees: The need for evidence-based policy solutions.” Senator Figir started his speech by warning the participants that forced displacement
Geneva, Switzerland. On March 24, 2018, at the 138th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva, Switzerland, the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) assumed the chairmanship of the IPU’s Asia-Pacific Group (APG). This geopolitical group represents two thirds of the world’s population, including countries as diverse and populous as China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Iran, in addition
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Colonia, Yap. January 25, 2018. On January 22, 2018, FSM Ambassador to China, H.E. Carlson D. Apis, and his honor guest, Exhibition Travel Group (ETG) Chairman, Mr. Deng Hong, made a courtesy call visit to the Yap Congressional Delegation. The courtesy visit focused on the ETG’s investment and development plans in the State of Yap, and
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Colonia, Yap. January 25, 2018. FSM Senator Joseph J. Urusemal joined the Yap State Leadership in hosting US Congressman Thomas R. Suozzi of New York and his family to Yap during the past holiday season. US Congressman Suozzi is one of few Members of the US Congress to have visited Yap, but the first Congressman ever
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PALIKIR, POHNPEI – January 23, 2018. Chairman David W. Panuelo, on behalf of Speaker Wesley W. Simina, met with and welcomed to the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia Deputy Mission Director Clay Epperson of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Deputy Director Epperson was in Chuuk to attend a close-out ceremony on
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HANOI, VIETNAM – Vice Speaker Esmond B. Moses headed a delegation from the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia to the 26th annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF-26) in Hanoi, Vietnam from January 18-21, 2018. Under the umbrella theme of “Parliamentary Partnership, Peace, Innovation and Sustainable Development” the regional meeting adopted 14 working
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