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	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Cook Islands
		Although there is no official Cook Islands citizenship, the inhabitants of the Cook Islands consider themselves to be citizens of both the Cook Islands and New Zealand.
		The Cook Islands is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, a voluntary association of sovereign nations and dependencies that give symbolic or actual allegiance to the British Crown.
		The Cook Islands was a founding member of the South Pacific Forum, a regional organization that addresses the foreign affairs and international trade of its members.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761577287___6/Cook_Islands.html (378 words)

	IPI - International Press Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 2002, the island's only daily newspaper, the Cook Island News, was faced with a temporary parliamentary ban on one of the newspaper's reporters -- an incident that revealed that the government at times has little patience with press reports that differ from public officials' view of reality.
		In the Cook Islands, an associated state of New Zealand, there were few problems regarding press freedom; however, allegations surrounding an independent television licensing bid raised concerns that the government may be hesitant in expanding the broadcasting base by allowing foreign investment.
		Cook Islands, with a population of 15,700, is a self-governing country of fifteen islands, in free association with New Zealand.
	www.freemedia.at /wpfr/Australasia/cookIsland.htm (3907 words)

	Cook Islands (New Zealand)
		The Cook Islands were declared a British protectorate in 1888, and annexed to New Zealand in 1901.
		Evidently a single shade of the blue is present in the Cook Islands' flag — the blue of the field is identical to that in Union Flag.
		The Cook Islands are a political dependency of New Zealand, whose head of state is Queen Elizabeth, who, as most people would know, is resident in, and sovereign of the United Kingdom.
	flagspot.net /flags/ck.html (1818 words)

	A short history of Cook Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		James Cook discovers in 1773 the Cook Islands (earlier seen by the Spanish explorer Álvaro de Mendaña) The islands become a British protectorate in 1888 and become a posession of New Zealand in 1901.
		In 1904 Niue island is separated from Cook to become a seperate dependency.
		Since 1989 the country is governed by the Cook Islands Party (CIP) and its leader Geoffrey Henry.
	www.electionworld.org /history/cook.htm (198 words)

	Cook Islands Country Guide - History and Government - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The main island, Rarotonga, was rediscovered by the Bounty Mutineers in 1789.
		The largest single party is now the CIP’s main rival, the Democratic Party, which forms the government in coalition with the small centrist New Alliance party.
		The House of Ariki, which is composed of all the paramount chiefs of the Cook Islands, serves as an advisory body.
	www.worldtravelguide.net /data/cok/cok580.asp?RegionsMenu=Down (288 words)

	Jim Marurai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jim Marurai has been the prime minister of the Cook Islands since December 14, 2004 when he was elected by Parliament by a vote of 14-9.
		He is a member of the Democratic Alliance Party, the same party as his predecessor, Robert Woonton.
		Jim is a graduate of University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Marurai (125 words)

	History of the Cook Islands – What is in our past
		Cook Islanders are convinced that the great Maori migrations to New Zealand began from Rarotonga possibly as early as the fifth century AD.
		The name "Cook Islands" was given to the group by the Russians in honor of the great English navigator when it appeared for the first time on a Russian naval chart in the early 1800s.
		AFTER much manoeuvring and politicking, the Cook Islands was formally annexed by New Zealand on October 7 1900 when a deed of cession was signed by five ariki and seven lesser chiefs without any debate or examination of its ramifications or implications.
	www.ck /history.htm (2212 words)

	Cook Islands Government Online
		If both parties do not contest it and there are no other nominations, Bishop will automatically regain the seat, saving taxpayers the cost of staging a by-election less than a year out from the next general election, the prime minister says.
		Bishop’s resignation from the CIP is a minor political victory for the Democratic Party, he adds.
		As far as the by-election is concerned, the prime minister is also appealing to the rest of the Democratic Party to exercise restraint and apply some strategic thinking in relation to the matter, George adds.
	www.cook-islands.gov.ck /view_release.php?release_id=276 (555 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Country profiles \| Regions and territories: Cook Islands
		A former British protectorate, the Cook Islands is a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand.
		Its 15 volcanic islands and coral atolls are scattered over 770,000 square miles of the South Pacific, between American Samoa to the west and French Polynesia to the east.
		The Cook Islands are at risk from tropical storms; Hurricane Martin devastated the northern islands in 1997 causing substantial losses for the fl pearl industry.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/3697804.stm (459 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Pacific Division - Cook Islands Political, Economic and Relationship Country ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Although the Cook Islands GDP per capita is high compared to others in the region, this reflects the high proportion of expatriate residents, the tourism economy based in Rarotonga and until recently a large public sector.
		New Zealand is responsible for the defence of the Cook Islands under the terms of the 1965 Constitution.
		MAP assistance for the Cook Islands is aimed at supporting Pacific Patrol Boat operations, dive training, small arms use and their security, search and rescue and the provision of a physical training instructor and a technical adviser to the Pacific Patrol Boat project.
	www.mfat.govt.nz /foreign/regions/pacific/country/cookislandspaper.html (3341 words)

	COOK ISLANDS ‘UNITY’ COALITION TRIGGERS RESIGNATION - November 17, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		RAROTONGA, Cook Islands (The Cook Islands Herald, Nov. 13) — The Cook Islands Deputy Prime Minister, Aunty Mau Munokoa, quit her post in the on Saturday after refusing to accept the "Government of Unity" set up by the Prime Minister Robert Woonton and Cook Islands Partly leader and former Prime Minister Geoffrey Henry.
		She felt there was no need to walk to the other side to form a government because the Democratic Party won the majority of seats in the General Election.
		Woonton's move to split from the Democratic Party for the second time in just over two years is beginning to reverberate through the ranks.
	pidp.eastwestcenter.org /pireport/2004/November/11-17-05.htm (440 words)

	HelloPacific News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Two of Cook Islands' largest political parties are reportedly having a neck-and-neck race with some smaller rivals and independent candidates as the country holds its breath for election results.
		The Democratic Party and Cook Islands Party (CIP) are awaiting the final results as Prime Minister Dr Robert Wontoon trails his main rival in Manihiki, CIP President, Henry Puna.
		While the Democratic Party has already snared Ivirua seat, at least nine seats hang in the balance, including Rakahanga where the country's longest serving MP Sir Pupuke Robati is in a close tussle with independent Piho Rua.
	www.hellopacific.com /news/general/show/news/2004/09/09/09reg10.html (317 words)

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		The President of the Cook Islands Democratic Party says MP Norman George will be sacked from the party today.
		Makiuti Tongia has told the Cook Islands News that under the party’s constitution anyone who forms another party is liable to lose his position and can’t ever become a member again.
		Mr George says details of the new party are expected to be finalised at a meeting some time this week.
	www.rnzi.com /pages/news.php?op=read&id=10615 (231 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Cook Islands Democratic Party due to claim victory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Cook Islands Democratic Party is just hours away from claiming victory in the 2004 election.
		Weakened after carrying his northern island seat of Manahiki by just four votes, Woonton has been forced to concede ground to prime ministerial rival and Democratic Party leader, Dr Tereapai Maoate.
		Cook Islands election result expected within 24 hours
	www.abc.net.au /asiapacific/news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_1200097.htm (163 words)

	Cook Islands Government Online
		However its lack of success clearly demonstrated that the core of the Democratic Party was opposed to such a move, he said.
		“It was a case where the snake, being the leader of the Opposition party, obviously charmed the deputy prime minister to the extent that Dr Maoate dropped his defences and fell into temptation.
		The party had now warmed to Dr Woonton and wanted him to carry the Democratic government through to the next general election and a clear victory at the polls, George said.
	www.cook-islands.gov.ck /view_release.php?release_id=385 (410 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Cook Islands Democratic Party claims poll victory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Cook Islands Democratic Party is claiming victory in the 2004 election.
		However boasting a powerful mandate Maoate for the moment at least has the front running, and popular expectation of regaining the prime ministership which he was forced to relinquish in 2002.
		Cook Islands Democratic Party due to claim victory
	www.abc.net.au /asiapacific/news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_1200156.htm (158 words)

	Democrats Abroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		At the Democrats Abroad meeting in Barcelona, October 19-23, 2005, members of the DPCA adopted resolutions on censure of President Bush and Vice-President Cheney, preemptive war and withdrawal from Iraq.
		Washington is the scene of a new phase of the political struggle between Democrats and the Bush Administration to dominate the political agenda.
		Democrats Abroad asks you to provide the information requested on the form below so that we can inform you of (1) critical elections that may influence returns in your voting state and (2) immediate action needed on an imminent vote in congress or your state legislature.
	www.democratsabroad.org /join.php (749 words)

	Dispatch, Vol 1, No 10, November 5, 1990
		In particular, we emphasize that America shares the islands' vision of the region's future--seeing the Pacific not as a great ocean of small islands and tiny populations but rather as an aquatic continent--the world's largest--covering a full third of the earth's surface.
		The Cook Islands and Niue became self-governing states freely associated with New Zealand in 1965 and 1972.
		Island governments are facing these challenges by practicing fiscal restraint and by pursuing market-oriented trade, investment, and monetary policies designed to make them more competitive and export oriented.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/briefing/dispatch/1990/html/Dispatchv1no10.html (13473 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Candidates lodge 13 appeals over Cook Islands election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Cook Islands' deputy chief electoral officer, No'oapiii Tearea, says he has received 13 appeals in the wake of last week's general elections.
		If the results of last week's count are upheld, the ruling Democratic Party will claim 14 seats in Parliament and the opposition Cook Islands Party will claim nine, with one independent.
		The majority of the 13 appeals - known as petitions - are from unsuccessful candidates, whose allegations include bribery, cheating and undue influence of electors.
	www.goasiapacific.com /news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_1205772.htm (200 words)

	The Democratic Party - Peace, Progress, Prosperity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The party welcomes the arrival of the 'Young Democrats' the party's youth movement.
		The Democratic Party is pleased to support this most noble effort.
		We are appealing to all peace loving Seychellois in Seychelles and all over the world to join with the Democratic Party in making Seychelles the paradise it really deserves to be, for all its people and for the generation to come.
	www.dpseychelles.org (614 words)

	Cook Islands Ministers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Cook Island's Federation was incorporated in New Zealand in 1901 as an External Territory, since 1965 with complete self-government in free association
		In 1981 the Cook Island constitution was amended so that the Queen's representative was appointed directly by the Queen herself and the Cook Islands parliament was granted complete legislative independence of New Zealand in both internal and external affairs.
		As a result, the current relationship of the monarchy to the Cook Islands is effectively identical to that of any independent Commonwealth monarchy, even though the Queen is still nominally head of state "in right of New Zealand".
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /Cook_Islands.htm (364 words)

	SMALL ISLANDS VOICE
		All this is being done without consultation with the people on the islands and approval from the local island governments.
		Cook Islanders are the stakeholders and it should be for them to decide what, if any, activities are to be conducted on, in or around Suwarrow.
		The Democratic Party manifesto states "As the Government, we will consult and discuss with the Council and the people of each island the next stage of development to be initiated and to provide the assistance to set this up properly."
	www.unesco.org /csi/smis/siv/Pacific/reap-palmerston.htm (491 words)

	Pacific Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Democratic Party, of which the Prime Minister was a member, appeared to win a clear majority, however petitions were lodged against the winners of 13 of the 24 seats.
		Four Ministers from the Democratic Party followed Dr. Woonton into this new coalition, but the Democratic Party itself, in particular the party Leader Dr. Terepai Maoate and the outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Ngamau Munokoa, condemned the creation of the Government of Unity, which had split their party.
		The president of the Cook Islands Party, Henry Puna, says the coalition deal with Prime Minister Dr. Robert Woonton will remain regardless of the result of the electoral petition appeal in which he is challenging Woonton's four-vote win in the Manihiki electorate.
	www.pacificmagazine.net /pmalmanac/pmprofile.php?pmalmanacid=0006 (443 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Democratic Party wins Cook Islands election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the Cook Islands, the ruling Democratic Party has won the 2004 Cook Islands general election.
		However, the opposition CIP is concerned about the results in several seats and is likely to launch a protest.
		That process involves the visit of a New Zealand judge and whether the protests are successful or not may not be known for several weeks.
	www.goasiapacific.com /news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_1200760.htm (121 words)

	HelloPacific News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Meanwhile, Cook Islands Prime Minister, Dr Robert Woonton, has overturned preliminary results to retain his seat in the elections.
		Dr Woonton was trailing the president of the Cook Islands party, Henry Puna, by 15 votes but the final count saw a reversal with the P.M. winning by 142 votes to 138.
		This puts the Democratic Party further in the lead with 14 seats to the Cook Islands party's nine and a split vote on Rakahanga.
	www.hellopacific.com /news/general/show/news/2004/09/14/15reg04.html (260 words)

	Maldives culture, society, history, translations and politics, news
		Island leases, particularly inhabited islands, do not allow wholesale destruction of the environment, and Hilton-Crown's actions in Mandhoo not only offend ancient traditions, but are also likely to be contrary to environmental regulations in Maldives and contrary to the code of ethics that the Hilton company requires from its managers, employees and partners.
		Nobody believes Gayyoom, even the NSS is getting bored with their commander's charades, but for his corrupt business supporters it must have been heartening to see a bit of fight left in the old despot.
		'The mudhim of the island was a tall man and he was standing there looking over the curtain as people marked the ballot paper and saying in English (so the voters would not understand) to the island chief sitting at the desk whether a ‘tick’ or ‘cross’ had been written on each voting paper.
	www.maldivesculture.com /main.html (5916 words)

	The United Democratic Party of the Cayman Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Leader of Government Business and Leader of the United Democratic Party McKeeva Bush came out hitting back at a number of politicians who levelled allegations against him, the party and government, and warned that he has a lot more to reveal about them.
		He recalled the PPM saying political parties would destroy the islands, and quoted from a PPM newsletter, exposing their turn-around on the issue.
		They can’t tell you they are against the party then the next minute they are for the party, they can’t tell you that.
	www.udp.ky (3815 words)

	COOK ISLANDS STILL WITHOUT GOVERNMENT - November 15, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		WELLINGTON, New Zealand (RNZI, Nov. 15) –Cook Islands Prime Minister Robert Woonton has announced his Democratic party will combine with the Cook Islands Party to form a new coalition government.
		Dr Woonton says he has decided that as it was nearly three months since the general election, the Cook Islands people had the right to know who constituted the government of the day.
		Sir Geoffrey says his party is happy to be associated with Dr Woonton and his team to work towards resolving what he calls the disquieting issues faced by the country.
	pidp.eastwestcenter.org /pireport/2004/November/11-15-10.htm (177 words)

	Why Canada IS Worth SAVING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		And we still stand for the premise that people are better ruled by a democratically elected government, with restraint and care, than by corporate-driven treatise and agreements.
		First of all, it is a democratic political style country.
		This means that anyone living in Canada has the right to say or do anything they want as long as it doesn't bother their neighbours.
	www.canadianactionparty.ca /MainPages/cwsEssays.asp?Language=English (15793 words)

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