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	Prime Minister of Tuvalu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Prime Minister of Tuvalu is the head of government of Tuvalu.
		The Governor-General of Tuvalu is responsible for conducting the election, and for proclaiming the winner.
		The office of Prime Minister was established when Tuvalu gained independence in 1978, although the post is sometimes considered to be a continuation of the earlier office of Chief Minister.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Tuvalu (213 words)

	Saufatu Sopoanga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saufatu Sopoanga is a former prime minister and foreign minister of Tuvalu.
		He is a former finance minister who was elected Prime Minister by MPs on 2 August 2002 after the general election in which previous prime minister Koloa Talake lost his seat.
		On August 26, 2004, while one of the 15 Members of Parliament was sick in New Zealand and another had defected from Sapoanga's group, the opposition finally deposed Sapoanga in a no confidence vote, 8-6.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saufatu_Sopoanga (214 words)

	Tuvalu
		Tuvalu is a "special member" of the Commonwealth, eligible for benefits from its functional affiliates but not required to attend the Heads of Government Meetings.
		The governor general's functions are largely ceremonial and he is appointed on the advice of the prime minister in consultation with Parliament.
		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.com - Australia under scrutiny over global warming - March 3, 2002
		The Prime Minister of Tuvalu, Koloa Talake, told media at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Monday that his country was exploring this and other legal options for his low-lying Pacific nation.
		Tuvalu, which is attending its first CHOGM in its own right, is under threat of being swamped if global sea levels rise due to the impact of global warming.
		Tuvalu and other nations were also exploring the possibility of taking legal action against major corporations that were responsible for greenhouse gas emissions.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/03/chogm.globalwarming (344 words)

	Tuvalu (09/05)
		Tuvalu became fully independent in 1978 and in 1979 signed a treaty of friendship with the United States, which recognized Tuvalu's possession of four small islands formerly claimed by the United States.
		Toafa is the ninth Prime Minister of Tuvalu and also holds the portfolio of Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labor.
		Tuvalu became a member of United Nations in 2000 and maintains a mission at the UN in New York.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/16479.htm (2196 words)

	Tuvalu Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tuvalu says it would be a mistake if countries such as Australia and New Zealand start using their aid programs to persuade Pacific countries to support them in international forums.
		Tuvalu's deputy Prime Minister, Saufatu Sopoanga is in Kiribati for talks on the repatriation of stranded workers from both island nations in Nauru.
		Tuvalu's Prime Minister Saufatu Sopoanga was yesterday taken by surprise when the opposition tabled a vote of no confidence in him.
	www.topix.net /world/tuvalu/pr (1314 words)

	There will always be a Tuvalu says prime minister as rising tides hit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tuvalu will always exist as a sovereign nation even if most of its land has sunk beneath the South Pacific ocean, Prime Minister Saufatu Sopo'aga told AFP here Thursday.
		But he stressed that the sovereignty of Tuvalu was not at stake and although people might leave, he did not see any prospect of it being abandoned.
		In 2001 this capital atoll of around 5,000 people was completely inundated by the sea but because the weather in the region was calm this week the king tides are not expected to be as bad.
	www.spacedaily.com /2004/040219044708.zlxe939m.html (263 words)

	Climate Change - Tuvalu
		Tuvalu’s plan includes the selection of a climate change research committee, conducting a greenhouse gas inventory, communicating with the UN on climate change and rising sea levels, studying island vulnerability and adaptation strategies and then developing a national implementation strategy for climate change.
		Tuvalu has already completed the first four tasks and is hoping to have a plan in place by this June on how they can best combat and acclimate to the coming changes.
		Tuvalu's Prime Minister gave this address, which mentions global warming, when his country joined the United Nations.
	www.acfnewsource.org /environment/Tuvalu.html (672 words)

	Tuvalu PM loses his job - Breaking News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The prime minister of Tuvalu, one of the world's smallest nations, has lost his job after losing a confidence motion, clerk of parliament Lily Saavae said.
		Prime Minister Saufatu Sopo'anga, who held office for two years, was Wednesday defeated eight to six in the 15-seat assembly which meets occasionally in a community hall, she told AFP.
		Tuvalu, between Australia and Hawaii, is a nation of 11,000 people occupying 26 sq km of atoll land.
	www.theage.com.au - !http: //www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/26/1093456708938.html (301 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Students killed in Tuvalu fire
		The South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is in mourning after a 17 female students died in a fire at the country's only secondary school.
		All government offices and shops have been closed and the prime minister of Tuvalu Ionatana Ionatana and senior government ministers are travelling to the area to attend the funerals.
		Tuvalu - a collection of islands with a total population of fewer than 10,000 - was formerly known as the Ellice Islands.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/672532.stm (221 words)

	CNN.com - Sinking islands float legal challenge - March 5, 2002
		Already the Tuvalu government has said it is working with a United States law firm on how it could take legal action in the International Court of Justice to force nations to reconsider their position on greenhouse gas emissions.
		However Australian Prime Minister John Howard said the agreement with the U.S. was not designed to undermine the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emission.
		Tuvalu, a string of nine coral atolls five meters (16 feet) above sea level at their highest point, fears its last palm tree could sink beneath the Pacific within 50 years.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/05/pacific.sealevel (644 words)

	Tuvalu Political, Economic and Relationship Country Paper, Pacific, NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tuvalu is concerned about global increases in greenhouse gas emissions and their effect on rising sea levels, which threaten the country’s underground water table.
		Tuvalu is a member of the African Caribbean and Pacific group of developing countries associated with the European Community under the Lome Agreement (ACP), the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), and an associate of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
		Former Prime Minister Sopoanga was a frequent visitor to New Zealand, including to the Pacific Islands Forum in Auckland in August 2003, and the Special Leaders’ Retreat in April 2004.
	www.mfat.govt.nz /foreign/regions/pacific/country/tuvalupaper.html (1944 words)

	Maatia welcomes FEMM delegates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Prime Minister of Tuvalu, Maatia Toafa says the proper management of the scarce resource of small island countries is essential, especially for Tuvalu.
		The Prime Minister said Tuvalu was honoured to be given the opportunity to host 2005 FEMM.
		Prime Minister explained the hardships faced by the people of Tuvalu with international travel.
	www.fijivillage.com /artman/publish/printer_20565.shtml (276 words)

	UPF IIPC : IIPC Oceania Inaugural Conference
		The Prime Ministers from Samoa, Tuvalu, and The Solomon Islands; the First Lady of Palau; cabinet members from Papua-New Guinea and Kiribati; a Speaker of Parliament from Vanuatu; several former Heads of State and Government as well as eminent religious leaders from surrounding countries attended the IIPC-Oceania inauguration.
		On the political side, the heads of government in attendance at the conference were the Prime Minister of Samoa and his wife, the Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, the Hon.
		Prime Minister Malielegaoi said that in Samoa the functions of church and state are clearly separated at the official level.
	peacefederation.org /programs/IIPC/reports/oceania_inConf/index.php?report_id=237&event_id=40 (1607 words)

	Not Waving but Drowning, the Plight of Tuvalu
		Tuvalu once held the domain suffix ”.tv” due to a fluke of history, and sold the rights to that name for $40m to an American entrepreneur in 1998, before he sold them to Veritel who presumably granted “Gnn.tv.” domain rights.
		In 2002, the Prime Minister, Koloa Talake, took the drastic step of launching legal action against the U.S. and Australia for polluting the planet and endangering his nation.
		Tuvalu is a microcosm of what will happen to the rest of the world.
	guerrillanews.com /articles/2130/Not_Waving_but_Drowning_the_Plight_of_Tuvalu (1220 words)

	Pyash of Tuvalu
		The palace was purchased by the Marquess of Tuvalu for the nominal sum of 100 Tuvaluan Dollars after the Tuvalu Millennium Commission went into liquidation in January 2001.
		Tuvalu Communications is in talks with Columbian Reality TV Corporation which Marquess Pyash co-owns, to produce a range of programmes on Tuvalu.
		The Marquess of Tuvalu is the honourary head of the Tuvaluan Navy which currently consists of three part-time fishing boats and a glow-in-the-dark pink jet-ski donated by the International Menopausal Women’s Foundation.
	twerps.vbcity.com /html/pyash_of_tuvalu.html (377 words)

	Tuvalu, Landmine Monitor Report 2004
		Tuvalu has not yet acceded to the Mine Ban Treaty, as the government does not view the treaty as a priority.
		Tuvalu has not participated in any annual meetings of States Parties, but an NGO representative was present at the Fifth Meeting of States Parties in September 2003.
		Tuvalu does not use, produce, export, import, or stockpile antipersonnel mines and transfer of the weapon through its territory is not allowed.
	www.icbl.org /lm/2004/tuvalu (372 words)

	"Save Tuvalu!" - an environmental action started 1997
		Tuvalu is the first country that really has felt the effects of the climate change, but it does not stop in the Pacific.
		In the meeting I will explain Tuvalu’s situation, and hand over an unofficial invitation from Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Bikenibeau Paeniu, where he invites the Norwegian PM to travel to Tuvalu to see for himself the problems that the country is facing, due to the climate-change.
		I will also offer the Prime Minister and the TV-media some video-film that was recorded in May/June that shows what has happened in the small South Pacific nation and what the government and the people feel about their situation.
	www.sydhav.no /terje/tuvalu-97.htm (1308 words)

	20/2/2004 -- There will always be a Tuvalu says prime minister as rising tides hit
		Tuvalu has long warned it is at risk from a rise in sea levels caused by global warming.
		Tuvalu tried unsuccessfully to convince Australia and New Zealand to provide a special immigration quota "should the high tides eventually make our home uninhabitable", in the words of former premier Ionatana Ionatana.
		Tuvalu is the Polynesian or Ellice Island part of the former British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
	forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=29585 (925 words)

	Tuvalu - Country information - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
		Tuvalu is a constitutional monarchy with a 15-member unicameral parliament elected every 4 years.
		Sopoanga resigned as Prime Minister and a Member of Parliament on 28 August, necessitating a by-election in the seat of Nukufatau, which Sopoanga won on 7 October.
		Australia is Tuvalu's most significant development partner, providing an estimated $3 million in bilateral aid in 2004-05 to support the operation of the Trust Fund and activities in human resource development (primarily the education and training sectors).
	www.dfat.gov.au /geo/tuvalu/tuvalu_brief.html (844 words)

	Tuvalu is sinking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tuvalu is one of the world's smallest and most obscure nations: 10,000 people, scattered across nine tiny coral atolls.
		Pleas by a succession of Tuvalu's Prime Ministers (and those of other atoll nations such as Kiribati and the Maldives) for dramatic cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions have been ignored by other, more powerful states.
		Toaripi Lauti, the first Prime Minister of Tuvalu when it became an independent country (it was a British colony until 1978), said: 'I want my children to be safe.
	www.red-ice.net /news/2003/tuvalu.html (442 words)

	U.N Speech
		Tuvalu was once a British Colony, part of the then Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
		Tuvalu has a rich culture, a deep faith in Christianity, and a high respect for education.
		Tuvalu is a growing participant in regional and international affairs.
	www.janeresture.com /tuvalu2/un_speech.htm (1344 words)

	The Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Environmental problems were highlighted, with the Tuvalu Prime Minister describing the "very scary experience" faced by his people on the tiny atolls of Tuvalu as a result of climate change and sea level rise.
		The Tuvalu Prime Minster also expressed disappointment that the Summit could not agree on targets for implementing renewable energy "given the direct link between energy and climate change" and despite Tuvalu's continued call for a minimum target of 15 per cent on renewable energy by 2015.
		There were also concerns about the absence of transparency and accountability in the development process, and while the Tuvalu Prime Minister called on developing countries to make commitments to good governance, the Deputy Prime Minister of Vanuatu called on the OECD to be more transparent and inclusive in its pursuit of the Harmful Taxation Initiative.
	www.cpa.org.au /garchve5/1109pacific.html (458 words)

	Tuvalu prime minister looks to AVRDC for answers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But then Prime Minister Maatia Toafa of Tuvalu described the major challenges facing his people: The soil is extremely shallow and infertile.
		Jackie Hughes, Deputy Director General for Research at AVRDC, had worked in Tuvalu in the past on a sweet potato project in her early career.
		She told the delegation, "There are a lot of challenges in Tuvalu and we have varieties that you may like to try.
	www.avrdc.org /news/05tuvalu.html (434 words)

	Colonial's Regional Business - Colonial Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On the 17th May 2000, the late Prime Minister of Tuvalu Ionatana Ionatana launched Colonial's first-ever regional country representation in Funafuti.
		Tuvalu has a population of more than 11,000 people with 30% of it's population under the employment of the Tuvaluan Government and foreign ships.
		On the 9th November 2000, the Prime Minister of Samoa and Minister for Finance, Honourable Tuilaepa Sailele Maleilegaoi officially launched Colonial's Samoa operation in Apia.
	www.colonial.com.fj /regional (317 words)

	18/12/2003 -- As seas rise, Tuvalu calls for emission cuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tuvalu Prime Minister Saufatu Sopoanga urged industrialized nations Wednesday to cut greenhouse-gas emissions as soon as possible by shifting to renewable energy sources, fearing his island nation will sink if global warming continues.
		Tuvalu, consisting of nine small islands in the South Pacific, is one of the first casualties of climate change.
		If this is true, Tuvalu islanders have 300 to 400 years before their homeland sinks into the sea, Sopoanga said.
	forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=27897 (496 words)

	Commonwealth - Media Conference: Sustainable Energy Development in Tuvalu - Media Centre Conference Room
		We have been invited by the Prime Minister to explore-I emphasise, to explore-the potential at this stage to identify appropriate partners who wish to work with the government and the people of Tuvalu to find solutions to the particular unique situation that small island states find themselves in.
		That point of the project is to try to find what technologies and what the moods are in Tuvalu first of all and then to research what the potential applications could be and, then, when we have done that, to find out who the potential partners could be.
		As the Prime Minister was alluding to before, he described a preliminary stage at the moment in terms of researches and consultations with this American firm.
	www.thecommonwealth.org /Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=33791&int1stParentNodeID=33370&int2ndParentNodeID=33374&int3rdParentNodeID=33772 (3329 words)

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