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	Ionatana Ionatana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He held many portfolios during his political career, including government secretary, Minister of Education and Minister of Works and Communications.
		Ionatana succeeded Bikenibeu Paeniu as Prime Minister and in his term oversaw Tuvalu's entry into the United Nations on September 5, 2000.
		This page was last modified 13:30, 3 August 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ionatana_Ionatana (105 words)

	CBSNews.com: Print This Story
		Finance Minister Bikenibeu Paeniu said Wednesday that Tuvalu, a chain of nine coral atolls whose highest point is just 13 feet above sea level, expects to be ready to launch formal legal action against both within a year.
		Paeniu said that sea levels had so far not risen around Tuvalu's palm-fringed islands but that storms seemed to be becoming more fierce, spraying damaging sea salt onto farmland.
		Paeniu said Tuvalu was not targeting nations like the European Union or Japan because they accepted Kyoto.
	uttm.com /stories/2002/08/29/world/printable520161.shtml (421 words)

	Tuvalu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Eighteen months of political tumult, which has disturbed the normally placid lives of the islanders, is due to come to an end later this month with the restoration of Tuvalu's original flag, which incorporated the Union flag.
		The move, by Bikenibeu Paeniu, the prime minister, reverses the decision of his predecessor, Kamuta Lautasi, whose introduction of a new flag with a complex design of stars and stripes in red, blue, white and yellow, and minus the Union flag, led to uproar among the atolls' 9,000 people.
		In a carefully-orchestrated no-confidence attack, he promised that one of his first acts as prime minister would be to restore the old flag.
	www.flagsociety.org.au /Tuvalu.htm (407 words)

	6.09: Buy This Domain
		Realizing he was out of his depth in assessing the deals, Paeniu, who holds a master's degree in agricultural and resource economics from the University of Hawaii, asked the International Telecommunication Union to assign a consultant.
		Although he doesn't mention it, Paeniu and his fellow islanders have another reason to take a guarded stance toward the promise of.tv wealth: So far, none of the entrepreneurial attempts to turn national domains into commercial riches has resulted in a big score.
		Paeniu is seated at the table where earlier Hideto Kuribayashi struggled with his rehearsal.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/6.09/tuvalu_pr.html (2201 words)

	Commonwealth Secretariat - Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Puapua withdrew from the December 1993 elections and Paeniu was defeated by Kamuta Latasi, who became prime minister.
		When parliament reconvened in April 1998 the members re-elected Paeniu as prime minister by 10 votes to two and he named his five-member cabinet, taking the foreign affairs brief himself and appointing Kokeiya Malua as deputy prime minister.
		In April 1999 Paeniu lost a no-confidence vote of the assembly and education and health minister Ionatana Ionatana was elected by parliament to succeed him.
	www.thecommonwealth.org /Templates/YearbookInternal.asp?NodeID=139465 (406 words)

	1993 Human Rights Report: TUVALU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Governor-General Lauti appointed out-going Prime Minister Bikenibeu Paeniu as caretaker Prime Minister until a new election was held November 24.
		This trend was partly due to the efforts of Prime Minister Paeniu, who was known to favor greater opportunities for women.
		Paeniu named women among his senior advisors, included them in his Cabinet, and encouraged increased participation by women in valuable overseas training opportunities.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/democracy/1993_hrp_report/93hrp_report_eap/Tuvalu.html (1871 words)

	Paeniu ousted (3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		PAENIU OUT, IONATANA IN, IONATANA OUT, PAENIU IN Vancouver, B.C. (16 April 1999)--- It appears that Bikenibeu Paeniu, who was ousted as Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Tuesday by a vote of no confidence, is now heading the caretaker government.
		Sources indicate that long-time Funafuti member Ionatana Ionatana was caretaker for a very brief period until the house agreed to allow Paeniu the task.
		The same sources have indicated that the Parliamentarians voted no confidence against Paeniu due to the failure of promised revenues from both the famous Internet TV deal and a passport selling scheme, and the alleged sexual preferences of Mr.
	www.tuvaluislands.com /news/archived/1999/1999-04-16.htm (172 words)

	The World Guide
		In Aug. 1993 PM Paeniu addressed the G-7 summit on global warming in Tokyo, making a demand for a 20% reduction of world carbon dioxide emissions, which directly affect the problem of rising sea levels in Tuvalu.
		In Sept. 1993 an election for prime minister was held among the 12-member parliament, resulting in a 6 to 6 vote deadlock and forcing a new poll to be scheduled for Nov. In the 25 Nov. election Kamuta Latasi defeated Bikenibeu Paeniu by 7 votes to 5.
		PM Bikenibeu Paeniu, elected for a second term in 1998, lost a no-confidence motion by seven votes to four (15 Apr. 1999) and was replaced by Ionatana Ionatana (27 Apr.).
	sbs.com.au /theworldnews/Worldguide/index.php3?country=204&header=4 (856 words)

	Radio Australia - Pacific Beat - Stories - PACIFIC: Concerns over Chinese small-businesses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		PANICHI: The Chairman of this year's FEMM, Tuvalu's Minister for Finance, Economic Planning and Industries, Bikenibeu Paeniu, says public enterprises had a generally poor record in the Pacific.
		PANICHI: Mr Paeniu was then asked what measures could be taken to ensure that Pacific Island countries actually followed the decisions taken at meetings such as FEMM.
		PAENIU: You're right, you're right, I mean this is a concern I've raised so many times in my own country, in parliament, in cabinet.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/pacbeat/stories/s1391583.htm (945 words)

	EUROPA - Development - Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mr Bikenibeu Paeniu, sign the addendum to the CSP.
		One of them is Tuvalu, one of the smallest and most remote Pacific ACP countries, whose Minister of Finance, Mr Bikenibeu Paeniu and DG Development's Deputy Director General, Mr Athanassios Theodorakis, on 26 January signed an addendum to the Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for the country, worth an additional € 500,000.
		This means on average € 50 per person, for the country's less than 10,000 inhabitants and only 26 sq km, of whom the majority lives from subsistence farming and artisanal fishing and whose main export product is stamps.
	ec.europa.eu /comm/development/body/events/Tuvalu.htm (473 words)

	Melanesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A vote on becoming a republic in 1986 was only supported by one island and Tuvalu remained a constitutional monarchy.
		In 1989, the new prime minister, Bikenibeu Paeniu, promised to reduce dependence on foreign aid.
		As it is so small, Tuvalu is a 'special member' of the Commonwealth and does not have direct representation at meetings of heads of government.
	www.gaminggeeks.org /Resources/KateMonk/Pacific/Melanesia/Tuvalu.htm (191 words)

	Tuvalu
		However, members of Parliament had tended to align themselves with either Sir Toaripi Lauti, Tuvalu's first Prime Minister and present Governor General, or Dr. Tomasi Puapua, who served as Prime Minister from 1981 to 1989.
		In 1989, Dr. Puapua lost the election to Bikenibeu Paeniu, a political new-comer who won the seat of his home island in an earlier by-election prior to contesting for the Prime Ministership.
		Tuvalu's minute size and almost total lack of exploitable resources suggest that most of the population will remain dependent on subsistence activities for the foreseeable future.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~ogden/piir/pacific/tuvalu.html (677 words)

	CNN - Australia in hot water over global warming stance - Sept. 20, 1997
		We had to give in to what they wanted," said Tuvalu Prime Minister Bikenibeu Paeniu, whose tiny nation is close to being submerged by rising tides.
		Australia intends to go to the U.N. climate conference in Kyoto, Japan, in December with a plan to allow nations to set their own limits, which would allow Australia to increase its emissions until 2010.
		Paeniu said the talks were deadlocked by Howard's refusal to budge on the issue, with the other nations only relenting to avoid the first split in the forum's 27-year history.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9709/20/pacific.forum (712 words)

	Breaking News 2
		As the Kyoto Protocol on climate change enters into force today, a former Prime Minister of Tuvalu says that island leaders must speak out more strongly on the issue of global warming.
		Bikenibeu Paeniu is Tuvalu's Finance and Planning Minister, and a long time campaigner for the international climate agreement.
		Mr Paeniu believes there's enough scientific evidence for developed countries to take more action on greenhouse gas emissions - a belief reinforced by the king tides that washed over Kiribati and Tuvalu last week.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/current_events_pacific_islands/114466 (509 words)

	Living on Earth: June 11, 1993
		Prime Minister Bikenibeu Paeniu says the storms and flooding which many scientists believe will accompany global warming pose a grave threat to his nation.
		PAENIU: After all, we don't have anything to do with this global warming.
		NUNLEY: Paeniu was in the US to urge industrialized nations to fund an international energy conservation agency.
	www.loe.org /shows/shows.htm?programID=93-P13-00024 (4759 words)

	Planet Ark - Tuvalu seeks help in US global warming lawsuit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		JOHANNESBURG - The Pacific island state of Tuvalu wants to enlist Caribbean and Indian Ocean nations in a planned lawsuit blaming the United States and Australia for global warming that could sink them beneath the waves.
		Finance Minister Bikenibeu Paeniu said this week that Tuvalu, a chain of nine coral atolls whose highest point is just four metres (13 feet) above sea level, expects to be ready to launch formal legal action against both within a year.
		Higher temperatures could melt the polar icecaps and raise sea levels worldwide, swamping nations like Tuvalu, which is one of the world's smallest states with about 10,000 inhabitants on an area of 27 square kilometres (10 square miles).
	www.planetark.org /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=17514 (478 words)

	markfloegel.org » … and the last shall be first (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Tuvaluan Prime Minister Bikenibeu Paeniu has traveled the globe, pleading with fellow heads of state to curb their countries’ carbon dioxide emissions and save his sinking nation.
		Paeniu listened, I can imagine him being swept with a sense of sadness and relief.
		Sadness in sharing the helplessness of another leader whose country is about to wash away.
	markfloegel.org /?p=46 (472 words)

	TUVALU PM REPORTS POTENTIAL IMPACTS TO THE WORLD CLIMATE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Bikenibeu Paeniu says in a speech to the World Climate Conference in Geneva that "the greenhouse effect and sea- level rise threaten the very heart of our existence.
		He reports that Tuvalu had noticed increased salinity in their aquifers, an increased number of dry spells, and more ferocious cyclones than normal.
		During Cyclone Bebe in 1972, Tuvalu's main atoll, Funafuti, was completely overwhelmed by huge waves, which accompanied an exceptional spring tide.
	archive.greenpeace.org /climate/database/records/zgpz0674.html (152 words)

	Tuvalu
		Prime Minister Bikenibeu Paeniu loses a no-confidence vote.
		Of the 12 MPs elected, seven are incumbents, two have previously been members and three are newcomers to Parliament.
		Among the successful incumbents are Prime Minister Bikenibeu Paeniu and Speaker Tomasi Puapua; former prime minister Kamuta Latasi, however, loses his seat.
	www.grondweteuropa.nl /9326000/1/j9vvgjnazrhmix9/vgaxlcr1jzmz?start_008_054=10 (239 words)

	ISLAND STATES URGE FIRMER ACTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Tuvalu's Prime Minister, Rt Hon Bikenibeu Paeniu, has again called on the international community to take serious steps to address the issue of climate change during formal negotiations this week in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
		The Prime Minister also said that some of the Tuvalu residents who had migrated from the country may have done so out of concern for the longterm effects of global warming and sealevel rise.
		Although the high-level segment of the convention does not begin until late next week, Mr Paeniu said he had come early to reinforce the concerns of his country and that of small island states.
	www.forumsec.org.fj /news/1998/nov03.htm (544 words)

	Pacific nation's annual swamping revives global warming debate
		Tuvalu has long warned it is at risk from a rise in sea levels caused by global warming.
		During negotiations on the Kyoto Convention on global warming a decade ago, then prime minister Bikenibeu Paeniu warned "the world's first victims of climate change" would be the 11,500 Tuvaluans.
		United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan also referred to Tuvalu, 3,400 kilometres (2,100 miles) north east of Australia, saying there was "trouble in paradise".
	www.terradaily.com /2004/040218023512.hxucbncd.html (543 words)

	THE-EDGE: News
		Tuvaluans have already seen storm surges push seawater into the middle of the island for the first time, soaking once-fertile soil with sea salt and destroying trees than have stood for decades.
		On arriving in Johannesburg for the WSSD, Tuvalu’s Finance Minister Bikenibeu Paeniu told World Environment News that, just as he was leaving his island home, he witnessed for “the first time...
		In addition to suing the US, the world’s biggest producer of climate-warming carbon dioxide gases, the Greenpeace/Tuvalu lawsuit is also targeting Australia, another greenhouse polluter and one that, like the US, has refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol for the reduction of CO2.
	www.earthisland.org /project/newsPage2.cfm?newsID=237&pageID=177&subSiteID=44 (1414 words)

	ENB @ Inter-Regional Prep Meeting for 10-year Review of BPOA
		Bikenibeu Paeniu, Tuvalu, speaking for the Pacific Islands Forum, said the International Meeting should focus on creating a fairer international trade system, new partnerships, enhanced regional cooperation, and time-bound goals, and emerging issues such as HIV/AIDS and poverty.
		Belize noted progress made since the BPOA and highlighted continuing and new challenges faced by SIDS including poverty, limited capacity, and economic vulnerability.
		Alvaro Umana, UNDP, Sateeaved Seebaluck, Mauritius, Bikenibeu Paeniu, Tuvalu, and Elizabeth Thompson, Barbados
	www.iisd.ca /sids/bpoa10/bahamasprep/26jan.html (503 words)

	Paeniu (1988) The villager: The basic resource of the development approach of the Solomon Islands Development Trust ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Paeniu (1988) The villager: The basic resource of the development approach of the Solomon Islands Development Trust (SIDT)
		The villager: The basic resource of the development approach of the Solomon Islands Development Trust (SIDT)
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	www.getcited.org /?PUB=102752454&showStat=Ratings (107 words)

	Climate of terror - Salon
		Storm surges are making the island nation unlivable (though over-development and overpopulation added to the problem).
		In 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore refused to meet with Tuvalu Prime Minister Bikenibeu Paeniu and hear his plea for U.S. support of the Kyoto Protocol, the U.N. treaty to slow global warming.
		Since then, the United States hasn't budged on its refusal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2002/09/05/warming/index2.html (944 words)

	Statement by The Rt Hon Bikenibeu Paeniu, Prime Minister, Tuvalu
		Statement by The Rt Hon Bikenibeu Paeniu, Prime Minister, Tuvalu
		Japan, like any other donor should be well informed of our own economic situations.
		Mr Chairman, let this Summit become the fundamental pilot of our cooperation into the 21st Century.
	www.sidsnet.org /pacific/forumsec/news/1997/jspf16.htm (1076 words)

	ADB Roundtable Meeting in Fiji to Explore Issues About Pacific Island Development - ADB.org
		Taking account of these distinctions and differences, it is hoped, will lead to more effective project design.
		Attending the Roundtable will be representatives from donor agencies and the private sector and experts on Pacific Island development, as well as senior government officials, such as Fiji Minister of Finance Berenado Vunibobo, Cook Islands Financial Secretary Lloyd Powell, Western Samoa Deputy Financial Secretary Henauri Petana, and Tuvalu Member of Parliament Bikenibeu Paeniu.
		The Roundtable will conclude on 20 November with a media briefing at 4:15 p.m.
	www.adb.org /Documents/News/1996/nr1996133.asp (326 words)

	Treasure on hold - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Industry reports said that Tuvalu dropped the Canadian company after the company defaulted on several payments.
		Tuvalus Prime Minister Bikenibeu Paeniu, who was directly involved in the negotiations, could not be reached for comment.
		Tuvalu is a fishing nation of 10,000, stretching over a string of tiny atolls in the South Pacific, with a few thousand radios and even fewer telephones.
	www.forbes.com /1999/07/16/mu4.html (758 words)

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