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		The status of free association recognizes the Marshall Islands as a sovereign, self-governing state with the capacity to conduct foreign affairs consistent with the terms of the Compact.
		The Marshall Islands Ambassador to the United States is the Honorable Banny DeBrum and the United States Ambassador to the Marshall Islands is the Honorable Greta N. Morris.
		The weather in the Marshall Islands is tropical and sunny.
	www.doi.gov /oia/Islandpages/rmimain.htm (1493 words)

	MARSHALL ISLANDS - ILES MARSHALL - ISLAS MARSHALL
		On behalf of the President of the Marshall Islands, we wholeheartedly thank the Italian Government and people for their generous hospitality and also thank FAO for the excellent preparations.
		President, this is a matter of extreme importance to the Marshall Islands and we are very concerned that urgent progress needs to be made.
		In the Marshall Islands we have mainly coral sand soil which is not the most productive soil there is. Nevertheless, we have been able to survive on the meagre fruits that it would yield for thousands of years.
	www.fao.org /docrep/003/x0736m/rep2/marshals.htm (992 words)

	Amata Kabua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amata Kabua (1928 – 20 December 1996) was the first President of the Marshall Islands from 1979 to 1996 (five consecutive terms).
		Amata Kabua began his career as a school teacher before becoming chief of Majuro and later president of the Marshall Islands.
		He had been a principal paticipant in the negotiations to gain independance for the Marshall Islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amata_Kabua (135 words)

	Marshall Islands (10/04)
		On May 1, 1979, in recognition of the evolving political status of the Marshall Islands, the United States recognized the constitution of the Marshall Islands and the establishment of the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
		The current president's party was re-elected in the general elections of November 2003, and the president took office in January 2004.
		The Republic of the Marshall Islands maintains an embassy at 2433 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008 (tel.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/26551.htm (2340 words)

	MARSHALLS PRESIDENT TO VISIT TAIWAN - December 3, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		President Chen invited President Note "to visit as a private guest and to refresh the friendship between the two countries," Ambassador Chen said.
		Zackios said that Marshall Islands Transportation Minister Mike Konelios is also going on the visit to meet with Mandarin Airlines to discuss both maintenance work on the two Air Marshall Islands’ German-manufactured Dornier 228 aircraft, as well as possible future use of planes that Mandarin will be selling as it upgrades its fleet of planes.
		Marshall Islands officials also hope to finish negotiations with Taiwan on a proposed multi-million dollar contribution to a newly established Marshall Islands trust fund, Zackios indicated.
	pidp.eastwestcenter.org /pireport/2004/December/12-03-07.htm (373 words)

	Marshall Islands President Visits IRI Reston --Register IRI
		The President of the Marshall Islands, the Honorable Kessai H. Note, is shown in the photos at left being greeted by Clay Maitland, managing partner of IRI, on his arrival at the Reston, Virginia head office.
		His recent visit, with an entourage of Marshall Islands government ministers, was to mark the 10th anniversary of IRI's administration of his country's maritime and corporate registries.
		The Marshall Islands is now the ninth largest open registry with 314 ships at more than 9 million gross tons.
	www.register-iri.com /content/press/minews11.cfm (188 words)

	Statement by Marshall Islands at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 September ...
		Marshall Islands has already joined a growing number of countries in developing a sustainable development plan framework, through a consultative process involving representatives from all levels of our society.
		Marshall Islands would like to impress that a national focus be entrenched in the application of these numerous partnerships to ensure direct benefit and impact.
		Marshall Islands is confident that the citizens of the world today are exceptionally brilliant and capable of rebuilding a world of peace and prosperity for all.
	www.un.org /events/wssd/statements/miE.htm (755 words)

	Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles
		Before World War II the islands now known as the Republic of the Marshall Islands were a component of a Japanese administered Mandated Territory set up by the League of Nations.
		On 1 May 1979, in recognition of the evolving status of the Marshall Islands, the United States recognised the Constitution of the marshall islands and the establishment of the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
		The President is elected by majority vote from the membership of the Nitijela; he selects the Cabinet (currently 10 ministers plus the President).
	www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1018965341624 (946 words)

	Marshall Islands -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		officially Republic of the Marshall Islands It is composed of two parallel chains of low-lying coral atolls: the Ratak, or Sunrise, to the east and the Ralik, or Sunset, to the west.
		The Marshall Islands is a republic with two legislative houses; its head of state and government is the president.
		During World War II the U.S. seized Kwajalein and Enewetak, and the Marshall Islands were made part of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under U.S. jurisdiction in 1947.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9371404 (983 words)

	Marshall Islands -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Following November 1999 elections in the Marshall Islands, the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) was expected to form a new government when the Nitijela (legislature) met in January 2000.
		The Marshall Islands' nearest neighbors are Wake Island to the north, Kiribati and Nauru to the south, and the Federated States of Micronesia to the west.
		The island was conquered in four days at a cost of 913 Marine dead and 2,000 wounded.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9342484 (832 words)

	Marshall Islands
		The Marshall Islands, east of the Carolines, are divided into two chains: the western, or Ralik, group, including the atolls Jaluit, Kwajalein, Wotho, Bikini, and Eniwetok; and the eastern, or Ratak, group, including the atolls Mili, Majuro, Maloelap, Wotje, and Likiep.
		The islands were explored by the Spanish in the 16th century and were named for a British captain in 1788.
		In 2003, the U.S. and the Marshall Islands agreed on a new Compact of Free Association, an extension of the lease to use the Kwajalein military base in exchange for economic aid.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107767.html (602 words)

	WISE NC: MARSHALL ISLANDS 1946-1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The disadvantages of the island include a lack of a lagoon and protected anchorage, and the heavy winter surf which isolates and halts offshore fishing from november to late spring.
		It means that the Marshall Islands will become somewhat independent in 1986, with the US still taking charge of defence affairs and being allowed to use Kwajalein as a test area.
		They declare that a total of five islands of the Enewetak Atoll were partially or totally destroyed by nuclear bomb tests while Runit Island was made uninhabitable because tonnes of plutonium-saturated sand and debris were dumped into a crater on the island and covered with concrete.
	www.antenna.nl /wise/454/4498.html (7694 words)

	MARSHALLS PRESIDENT WINED, DINED IN TAIWAN - December 17, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MAJURO, Marshall Islands (Yokwe, Dec. 16) — Marshall Islands President Kessai Note, in his third visit to Taiwan since 2002, is receiving a grand State treatment this week.
		On Thursday, Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian is scheduled to accompany Note on a visit to the National Museum of Prehistory in Taitung, in eastern Taiwan.
		The Marshall Islands President and the First Lady Mary Note will also be visiting cultural and economic establishments, said MOFA.
	pidp.eastwestcenter.org /pireport/2004/December/12-17-12.htm (265 words)

	Marshall Islands News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is attributable to the increase in import duties passed by the Nitijela to support the College of the Marshall Islands.
		The Marshall Islands were the last of four major island groups where he was stationed.
		SpaceDaily: The remote Marshall Islands atoll of Likiep, which was dusted with fallout from nuclear tests in the 1950s, has filed a late suit for compensation, officials...
	www.4newz.net /nov2004/Marshall_Islands.html (2255 words)

	Marshall Islands
		As a nation whose very livelihood depends on the resources of the sea, the Marshall Islands government reaffirms its unwavering support for the regime established under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
		The people and the environment of the Marshall Islands continue to suffer as a consequence of the nuclear weapons tests that were conducted in our territory between 1946 and 1958.
		The Marshall Islands Government reiterates its concern that the exclusion of a nation of peaceful and law-abiding citizens is not consistent with the inclusive ideal of the United Nations.
	www.un.org /webcast/ga/58/statements/marseng030930.htm (1374 words)

	Marshall Islands' President Travels to Arkansas for Marshallese Celebration :: Everything Marshall Islands :: ...
		The President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands joined several thousand fellow Marshallese in Springdale, Arkansas over the Memorial Day weekend for the celebration of the Republic's 24th Constitution Day.
		For the second year, President Kessai H. Note was the special guest of the Northwest Marshallese Community and its keynote speaker for the opening ceremonies.
		The Marshall Islands signed an amended agreement for a new Compact of Free Association with the United States last month, but the agreement must be first approved by the RMI legislature and the US Congress before taking effect.
	www.yokwe.net /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=414 (536 words)

	96/12/20 Statement: Death of Marshall Islands President Amata Kabua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		U.S. Department of State 96/12/20 Statement: Death of Marshall Islands President Amata Kabua Office of the Spokesman Press Statement by Nicholas Burns/Spokesman December 20, 1996 Death of Marshall Islands President Kabua Early this morning, Amata Kabua, President of the Marshall Islands, died at Queens Hospital in Honolulu after an extended illness.
		Notably, he was a principal participant in the negotiations which resulted in the Marshall Islands becoming a sovereign nation in free association with the United States in 1986.
		Starting his career as a school teacher, President Kabua rose to become paramount chief of the Island of Majuro and head of state of the Marshall Islands.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/briefing/press_statements/9612/961220ps1.html (238 words)

	Marshall Islands president: keep free association agreement - 2002-08-21
		The president of the Marshall Islands says Washington is trying to back out of the long-standing agreement with his land and he opposes this.
		In a speech to the 33-seat unicameral Marshall Islands legislature, Kessai Hesa Note said Washington has been trying to renegotiate the agreement by which 70,000 residents of the Marshalls won their independence.
		The Marshalls, a collection of small islands about a third of the way from Hawaii to Bali, were under American administration for nearly 40 years before attaining independence under a Compact of Free Association in 1986.
	www.bizjournals.com /pacific/stories/2002/08/19/daily33.html (534 words)

	Pacific Islands: PINA and Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Gerald Zackios has confirmed a visit by Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian to the former UN Trust Territory.
		President Chen was to have visited the Marshall Islands last month during a brief tour of Pacific island allies, but the schedule was changed with Marshalls President Kessai Note said his country was not ready to host the visit.
		Marshall Islands established diplomatic ties with Taipei in 1998 and is one of only 26 nations worldwide that recognizes Taiwan.
	www.pacificislands.cc /pina/pinadefault.php?urlpinaid=14432 (459 words)

	Pacific Islands: PINA and Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Marshall Islands’ sole newspaper, The Journal, has called the President’s newly acquired taste for globetrotting as “a lack of engagement”.
		It has noted that President Note has been out of the country for an average of two weeks per month from May through September last year, adding that he is often accompanied by the same people, including his wife and presidential staffers, accruing large chucks of public money in international travel and allowances.
		In December, President Note, along with the same entourage, made his second trip in one year to Taiwan, and was gone from the 8th to the 23rd, two days before Christmas.
	www.pacificmagazine.net /pina/pinadefault2.php?urlpinaid=14008 (766 words)

	Marshall Islands article archives
		of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the...
		FSM News (press release),: The President is to join the Republic of the Marshall Islands President - Kessai H. Note and the Republic of Palau President -Tommy E. Remengesau Jr.
		Yokwe,: Under the superb guidance of Dr. Holly Barker of the Republic of the Marshall Islands Embassy, the students of the University of Washington are embarking on a...
	www.4newz.net /news/Marshall_Islands.html (8072 words)

	Bikini Atoll Government
		Kessai Note, whose father was a Bikinian, was elected unanimously as President of the Marshall Islands on January 3, 2000.
		In his role as Speaker of the Nitijela and Senator from Jabot Island, a tenure that lasted for the past 12 years, he became most known for his stand against gambling in the Marshall Islands.
		He was reelected for a second term as President of the Marshall Islands in January of 2004.
	www.bikiniatoll.com /govt.html (328 words)

	President Kessai Note
		Kessai Note made history in early 2000 by becoming the first commoner to be elected president of the Marshall Islands, where traditional power remains strong and, until recently, there had been little change in a political environment once dominated by traditional leaders.
		While the attempt to clean up the Marshalls' financial management record has defined his first two years in office, two watershed events during his speakership in 1998 and 1999, when he locked horns with the majority party led by then President Imata Kabua, catapulted him to viability as a future president.
		Indeed, the election of a president who was not a traditional chief - as were the first two presidents - was unimaginable just half a dozen years ago.
	www.bikiniatoll.com /KessaiNote.html (715 words)

	PMag v17n3p31 -- Newsworthy
		With the Compact of Free Association - the agreement which gave the Marshall Islands their independence from the United States - set to expire, US and Marshall Island officials are in discussions about the future of the Kwajalein testing range.
		Although the US lease for the use of the atoll does not expire for 15 years, the use of the facility for developing ballistic missile defence technology has made the testing range very valuable to the United States.
		The University President, Tove Bull, stated that the doctorate was awarded for VanunuNs effort for world peace.
	www.peacemagazine.org /archive/v17n3p31.htm (689 words)

	Marshall Islands Report --Register IRI
		The November 2004 Marshall Islands Report discusses the recent opening of an IRI office in Shanghai as well as plans to open an office in Dalian, PRC and further expansion of IRI operations in Japan.
		The July 2004 Marshall Islands Report discusses the implementation of the ISPS Code, the Registry’s celebration of reaching 22 million gross tons during Posidonia 2004, a recent visit by the Honorable Kessai H. Note, President of the Marshall Islands, as well as other “In the News” items.
		The October issue of the Marshall Islands Report discusses the responsibilities of a flag state administration and what processes and procedures the Marshall Islands (MI) are implementing to embrace quality.
	www.register-iri.com /content.cfm?catid=35 (1364 words)

	Bikini Atoll News
		Under consideration is an IAEA proposal to scrape nuclear contaminated soil away from the village area on Bikini Island, while using potassium fertilizer on the rest of the island to reduce radiation uptake by the coconut and other fruit crops.
		Bikini Atoll - The exhiliration for Bikini islanders of returning to their home island for the first time in 51 years was tempered by the realization for many of the elders that it may be the last time they set foot on the land that they love.
		March 1 is a national holiday throughout the Marshall Islands, a memorial day commemorating all the victims of the 67 American nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands.
	www.bikiniatoll.com /news.html (2664 words)

	Marshall Islands travel \| Lonely Planet World Guide
		The Marshall Islands comprises over a thousand flat coral islands of white sand beaches and turquoise lagoons.
		You can still watch outrigger canoes zipping around the lagoons, though these days you're as likely as not to find a VCR in that little grass shack and Coke replacing coconut milk as many islanders' drink of choice - the Marshall Islands, like most of the Pacific, is getting in the pop culture loop.
		Several of the islands - the Bikini Atoll in particular - served as testing sites for atomic bombs through the 1960s, and many of their inhabitants have suffered from radiation poisoning, while their home islands remain too contaminated to be resettled.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /destinations/pacific/marshall_islands (271 words)

	Marshall Islands -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		officially Republic of the Marshall Islands, Marshallese Majol, country of the central Pacific Ocean.
		It consists of some of the easternmost islands of Micronesia.
		The Marshalls are composed of two parallel chains of coral atolls—the Ratak, or Sunrise, to the east, and the Ralik, or Sunset, to the west.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9117363 (837 words)

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