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	List of state leaders in 2001 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		António Mascarenhas Monteiro, President of Cape Verde (1991–2001)
		President - Milan Kučan, President of Slovenia (1990–2002)
		President - Alfonso Portillo, President of Guatemala (2000–2004)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_state_leaders_in_2001 (3161 words)

	Politics of Nauru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The President is both the head of state and head of government.
		A series of no-confidence votes, resignations and elections between 1999 and 2003 saw René Harris and Bernard Dowiyogo as President for numerous short periods during a period of political instability.
		Ludwig Scotty was elected President on May 29, 2003, but this did not bring to an end the years of political uncertainty as he was replaced by Harris a few months later.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/President_of_Nauru (289 words)

	Nauru
		President, his warmest congratulations on your assumption of the stewardship of this august Assembly and as a small island developing state, Nauru is extremely proud to be associated with the Caribbean Community on this marvelous achievement.
		Nauru joins the call on the concern countries to observe their obligations under the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and to allow the IAEA to inspect and verify that indeed nuclear weapons are not being developed.
		President, as a small island developing states in the Pacific ocean, Nauru align itself with the interventions made by the Leaders of the Pacific nations who have spoken before me on the concerns and challenges that we, the small island big ocean developing states are facing now and in the future.
	www.un.org /webcast/ga/58/statements/naureng031001.htm (2193 words)

	MSN Encarta - Nauru
		Nauru does not have an official capital, but government offices are located in the district of Yaren.
		Nauru was visited by the British in 1798 and annexed by Germany in 1888; it surrendered to Australian armed forces in 1914.
		Nauru gained its independence and was proclaimed a republic on January 31, 1968.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761561324 (539 words)

	NAURU
		Nauru (pronounced nah-oo’-roo) in the South Pacific Basin is one of the world’s tiniest nations with a total land area of just over 8 square miles.
		Nauru is administered by a president chosen by the popularly elected 18-member legislative council.
		Nauru will accept applications for unrestricted licenses or for in-house type banks but in practice the authorities are unwilling to grant unrestricted licenses to anybody other than an existing bank and would also impose a requirement that the applicant set up an office and associated infrastructure in Nauru.
	www.offshore-manual.com /taxhavens/Nauru.html (829 words)

	Nauru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nauru is a special member of the Commonwealth and joined the United Nations as a member state in 1999.
		Nauru is a small phosphate rock island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands.
		Nauru's climate is extremely muggy all year round because of its proximity to the Equator.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/na/Nauru.htm (867 words)

	Republic of Nauru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nauru's constitution -- adopted on January 29, 1968, and amended on May 17, 1968 -- established it as a republic with a parliamentary system of government.
		Furthermore the Nauru Island Council is charged with the dual objectives of rejuvenating local government by concentrating on activities more relevant to Nauruans, and to ensure that the serious shortcomings of the old Council are not repeated.
		The Cabinet, with the president as minister in charge, have taken over the old council's financial network until its affairs are reconciled with government objectives, or further legislation is enacted.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~ogden/piir/pacific/nauru.html (1018 words)

	NAURU PRESS RELEASES
		The entry into or presence in Nauru of a prohibited immigrant is unlawful and such persons will be guilty of an offense and liable to a penalty of a fine, not exceeding $3000, or imprisonment for one year, or both.
		Mr Kun said that the Nauru Government has provided asylum seekers with the freedom to attend public hospitals whenever they are in need of medical attention, have their children enrolled in schools with Nauruan children, move around on the island for shopping, picnics, swimming and to participate in sporting events.
		Nauru's commitment, laid out in a letter from the President of Nauru to the Secretary-General of the OECD, provides an "effective exchange of information agreements for criminal tax matters" and a readiness "to negotiate agreements for civil tax matters".
	www.un.int /nauru/government.html (3395 words)

	HOPE! Beam me up, Scotty - NAURU's NEW GOVT could close detention centre : Melbourne Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The outgoing President of Nauru is angry his government collapsed when one of his own cabinet ministers supported an opposition motion of no confidence.
		President Rene Harris responded to the situation by threatening to dissolve parliament.
		The new President is Ludwig Scotty, and his ministerial team reportedly includes some of the younger MPs who have been advocating radical changes in the way the financially troubled island nation is run.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /print.php?id=72209 (556 words)

	AT&T News Release, 1993-08-04, Nauru president places first call on new island phone system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nauru is a 21-square kilometer (8-square mile) island located 3,930 kilometers (2,445 miles) southwest of Hawaii and has about 9,000 residents.
		The indigenous population is a mixture of Micronesian, Polynesian and Melanesian descent, with Polynesian characteristics predominating.
		Nauru is considering the possibility of creating an offshore banking system, based on the absence of income tax on the island.
	www.att.com /news/0893/930804.cia.html (1296 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Nauru president toppled by no confidence vote
		The Nauru government was toppled by a vote of no confidence after a key minister in the tiny, debt-stricken Pacific nation crossed the parliamentary floor to vote with the opposition, an official said on Tuesday.
		Nauru's financial crisis erupted last April when US company General Electric Capital Corporation began moves to recover debts of more than US$160-million by seizing control of the country's major remaining assets, a portfolio of Australian properties.
		Nauru — with a population of 12 500 — is a 21-square kilometre island once rich in phosphate that, by the early 1970s, gave it some of the world's richest people per capita, with air and shipping lines and major building investments.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/330366.htm (319 words)

	A short history of Nauru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		From 1942 to 1945 Nauru is occupied by Japan and in 1947 it becomes a United Nations Trust Territory, administered by Australia, also on behalf of New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
		Later in 1989 Bernard Dowiyogo becomes president again, which he is from 1989 until 1995, in 1996, from 1998 until 1999, 2000 until 2001 and twice in 2003.
		He is president from 1999 until 2000, from 2001 until 2003, shortly in 2003 and from 2003.
	www.electionworld.org /history/nauru.htm (320 words)

	Nauru President Visits Secretariat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		President Clodumar and Mr Tabai discussed issues likely to come up at meetings this month in the Cook Islands of the Small Islands States summit from 12 - 13 September and the South Pacific Forum from the 17th to the 19th.
		The Nauru leader was also briefed on the continuing restructuring programme of the Forum Secretariat which saw its new focus on policy and co-ordination functions.
		President Clodumar’s visit is the second by a Head of State this year, following that of the President of the Republic of Marshall Islands and current Forum Chairman, His Excellency President Imata Kabua, in March this year.
	www.forumsec.org.fj /news/1997/sep2.htm (210 words)

	(4/26/2003) Nauru Island: Far Side Of Paradise
		For a while, Nauru was the richest per capita nation in the South Pacific and the envy of its larger neighbors.
		President Harris immediately sent a delegation to Washington, where they met a pair of men that they believed to be senior intelligence agents for the U.S. and New Zealand.
		In a hypothetical example of how Nauru would benefit by aiding with the escape of a North Korean nuclear scientist, a member of the Nauru delegation was told that their country would be given $1 million.
	www.monitor.net /monitor/0304a/nauru.html (2527 words)

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		Government officials yesterday urged Nauru not to be taken in by Beijing after the president from the tiny Pacific island -- without the backing of his Cabinet -- sealed an agreement in Hong Kong establishing diplomatic ties with China and turning its back on Taiwan.
		The press conference was held hours after President of Nauru Rene Harris signed a joint communique with the Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Zhou Wenzhong in Hong Kong around noon yesterday.
		As of 11pm local time in Nauru, Namaduk and Nauru's finance minister, Godfrey Thoma, were still gathering at Taipei's embassy in the tiny pacific state, trying to persuade Harris to change his mind, government sources said.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /TT/2002/TT-072202.htm (714 words)

	Herald Sun: New Nauru president after drama [22jun04] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		New President Ludwig Scotty, who was president from May to August last year, sparked a political crisis on April 7 when he resigned as speaker of the parliament over the nation's financial woes.
		He became president again in 2001, was deposed on January 9, 2003 and then took the reigns again for one day on January 18, 2003.
		Nauru, which has a population of about 13,000 and land area of just 21 square kilometres, has been facing a financial crisis since its reserves of phosphate began to run out.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/06/22/cache/244246.html (619 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| President of Nauru dies
		The President of the tiny Pacific island of Nauru, Bernard Dowiyogo, has died of a heart attack at the age of 57.
		Mr Dowiyogo, who had been the president of Nauru on six separate occasions since 1976, was in hospital in the United States and had just undergone emergency heart surgery.
		Nauru, a 21-square-kilometre island just south of the equator, is home to 12,000 people.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2835391.stm (136 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Nauru vote helps President
		The reformist president of Nauru, Ludwig Scotty, looks to have been strengthened by parliamentary elections at the week end.
		President Scotty called the elections to resolve a parliamentary stalemate holding up key legislation.
		Nauru, the world's smallest independent republic and home to 13,000 people, once enjoyed one of the world's highest per-capita incomes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/asia-pacific/3946681.stm (201 words)

	U.S. Sends Condolences on Death of President of Nauru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The United States expresses its deepest condolences to the people of Nauru and to the family of Bernard Dowiyogo on the passing of the President of Nauru, the State Department said in a March 10 press release.
		The United States expresses its deepest condolences to the people of Nauru and to the family of Bernard Dowiyogo on the passing of the President of Nauru.
		President Dowiyogo passed away Sunday, March 9, at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he was being treated for a heart ailment.
	japan.usembassy.gov /e/p/tp-20030311b1.html (178 words)

	Nauru
		Nauru (pronounced NAH-oo-roo) is an island in the Pacific just south of the equator, about 2,500 mi (4,023 km) southwest of Honolulu.
		Nauru appealed to the International Court of Justice to compensate for the damage from almost a century of phosphate strip-mining by foreign companies.
		Nauru - Nauru, officially Republic of Nauru, atoll and independent republic (1995 est.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107816.html (776 words)

	CNN.com - Nauru president dies in the U.S. - Mar. 10, 2003
		The president of the tiny Pacific island state of Nauru has died in a United States hospital after emergency heart surgery, a government spokesman said on Monday.
		Nauru has one of the world's highest rates of diabetes.
		Political veteran Dowiyogo was elected in January to serve his seventh term as president of the cash-strapped island, which is struggling to save itself from financial ruin following the near exhaustion of a phosphate mine, its one major industry.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/09/nauru.president.reut (286 words)

	GW Hospital : 3.7.2003 President of Nauru in Critical Condition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		GW Hospital : 3.7.2003 President of Nauru in Critical Condition
		WASHINGTON— The 57 year old President of the Republic of Nauru, Bernard Dowiyogo, is listed in critical condition at The George Washington University Hospital.
		President Dowiyogo underwent heart surgery at GW Hospital on Tuesday, March 4, 2003.
	www.gwhospital.com /p9971.html (70 words)

	CPJ Protests: Nauru 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Field told CPJ that Nauru officials provided no reason for the ban, but that he has "no doubt that it is because of [my coverage of] the money laundering operation" there.
		The New Zealand-based Field is one of a handful of journalists who have actively reported on offshore banking in Nauru, the world's smallest independent republic.
		As an organization of journalists dedicated to the defense of press freedom around the world, CPJ believes that no country has the right to bar entry to a journalist because of his or her reporting.
	www.cpj.org /protests/01ltrs/Nauru09aug01pl.html (343 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - A eulogy in Washington for Nauru's late president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nauru's Parliament is due to meet in the next few weeks to choose a new Speaker and a new President.
		The leader of the centre party in the Nauru Parliament, Kinza Clodumar, who travelled to the United States with the late President, will be delivering the eulogy at a special memorial service in Washington today.
		Mr Clodumar will return to Nauru with the President's body on a U-S military aircraft at the weekend ahead of a State Funeral on Monday.
	www.goasiapacific.com /news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_805638.htm (143 words)

	Nauru News
		HONOLULU, Oct 7 Asia Pulse - Nauru President Ludwig Scotty is calling on the world's donor nations for assistance in the wake of the tiny country's near bankruptcy, saying, "We have a young and growing...
		The new President of Nauru, Ludwig Scotty, has named his cabinet, promoting one of the newly-elected MPs to ministerial rank.
		AN Australian government team will head to Nauru tomorrow as refugee groups ramped up their demands for an independent assessment of medical facilities on the tiny nation.
	www.topix.net /world/nauru (335 words)

	Funeral Service of Nauru President Bernard Dowiyogo
		On behalf of President Bush, Secretary of State Powell, and the American people, I would like to express my condolences to President Dowiyogo's family and the people of the Republic of Nauru for your loss.
		Nauru's severe financial problems have interrupted the normal operation of the government and threaten the well-being of Nauru's people.
		President Dowiyogo took careful note of the facts presented and the concerns expressed by U.S. experts and issued an Executive Order instructing his government to begin shutting down the offshore banking sector.
	www.state.gov /t/pm/rls/rm/18734.htm (574 words)

	Freedom in the World 1998-99: Nauru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In June, President Kinza Clodumar was defeated in a no-confidence vote and was replaced by Bernard Dowiyogo, a former president of Nauru and the country’s longest-serving member of parliament.
		Nauru, a small isolated island located 1,600 miles northeast of New Zealand in the west-central Pacific, became a German protectorate in the 1880s.
		In 1989, Nauru sued Australia in the International Court of Justice for additional royalties for mining done during the trusteeship period, claiming that Australia had sold the phosphates domestically at below world prices, and for compensation for the physical damages done to the eight-square-mile island.
	www.freedomhouse.org /survey99/country/nauru.html (786 words)

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