PALIKIR, POHNPEI. – The Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia has been admitted as a member of the international parliament organization called the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). On April 16, 2011, the Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union adopted in Panama a resolution to admit the FSM Congress as a member of the international body. […]
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PALIKIR, POHNPEI. March 31, 2011 – The Sixteenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia has appropriated the sum of 180,000 from the General Fund to assist with relief efforts for the recent natural disasters in the neighboring countries of Australia, New Zealand and Japan. On Day Nine of the Sixth Special Session, Congress passed Congressional
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PALIKIR, POHNPEI. March 22, 2011 – The Sixth Special Session of the Sixteenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia is under way in Palikir to address matters pending before the various Standing Committees of the Congress. Speaker Isaac V. Figir called for the Special Session to convene on March 21 2011, for a five-day
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PALIKIR, POHNPEI. March 8, 2011 – The polls places across the Federated States of Micronesia opened this morning for the 2011 National Elections where twenty three candidate hopefuls are vying to be the States’ representatives to the upcoming Seventeenth FSM Congress. Today’s elections will seat in May the 14 members of the new Legislative Body
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Weno, CHUUK. February 10, 2011 – Speaker Isaac V. Figir of the Sixteenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia advised the national economic symposium that the FSM “is now in a position to either make or break its long-term economic viability.” The Speaker’s message was directed to the participants of the National Economic Symposium currently
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PALIKIR, POHNPEI. May 8, 2009 – The Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia will convene in Palikir at 10am on Saturday – May 11 2013, for the Opening Session of the nation’s Eighteenth Congressional Body. The Opening Session will seat the recently elected two-year representatives of the four states to the FSM Congress. In addition,
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PALIKIR, POHNPEI. – Former Prime Minister of Japan Yoshiro Mori returned to Palikir on June 10 2012, to enjoy the fruits of a coconut tree he planted when he first visit the Federated States of Micronesia in September 2001. On the 19th of September 2001, Mori-sensei led a delegation to the Federated States of Micronesia to
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