Emerging Pacific Island Community: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session ... July 31, 1978

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Page 4 - RICHARD C. HOLBROOKE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF STATE BIOGRAPHY Richard C.
Page 7 - Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my thoughts with you and I offer my earnest support of HR 4739.
Page 22 - EPOC maintains close liaison with the South Pacific Commission (SPC), the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Co-operation (SPEC), the University of the South Pacific (USP) , and with UNDP offices in Suva, Apia and Port Moresby.
Page 4 - It will be to our advantage as well as theirs to foster this goodwill. These emerging states will have a role to play in the United Nations and in other international forums as well as in Third World councils. The waters surrounding the islands are promising sources of fish and other marine resources. The peoples of the islands — Micronesians. Melanesians and Polynesians — have already enriched our culture and benefitted from our educational and technical assistance ; the time is ripe for a more...
Page 6 - SPC has dropped from 20 percent of its operating budget to 17 percent, because of the Increased contributions by the Island members. As example of increased United States involvement in South Pacific regional organizations is our participation in negotiations to establish a South Pacific Regional Fisheries Organization. Meeting in Suva last November and again in May of this year, we joined the island nations as well as France, the UK, their dependent territories, and Chile in preparing a draft treaty...
Page 4 - Islands only a few weeks ago. Self-government has come to most of the remaining territories, and there will be additional independent states within the next few years. These new states vary greatly in culture and size; they range from Papua New Guinea with almost three million people to tiny Tuvalu with only 8,000 inhabitants. There is a reservoir of great goodwill towards the United States among the peoples of the South Pacific and this enhances the prospects for cooperative relations between them...
Page 6 - Island states to do the same to insure that they have accredited Ambassadors to the United States. We are taking a fresh look at our representation in the South Pacific to see if we are making the best use of our limited resources. We will also consider whether we should open a diplomatic post elsewhere in the region.
Page 6 - American professors for their regional universities. We will also be assisting others to pursue courses of study in American universities not yet available at the regional universities. The Peace Corps has made a particularly significant contribution to the region. There are over 540 volunteers in Fiji, Tonga, Western Samoa, Micronesia, the Gilberts and Tuvalu.
Page 7 - II provide us with a large fund of goodwill on which to build. The experience of our own states and territories in the Pacific and the talents and interests of their peoples provide an additional important resource. Great amounts of money or time are not required. We need only be sympathetic to the aspirations of the South Pacific peoples and true to our ideals.
Page 6 - In the context of the vast Washington bureaucracy, these are hardly earthshaking moves. But as Senator Glenn can testify, they were greeted with enthusiasm by the Pacific island leaders we met during our recent visit to the area. We will also be promoting more contacts between Pacific Islanders and Americans both to demonstrate our own interest and to lenrn more about their interests and problems.

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