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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “After more than a decade as an observer, I am happy to announce that American Samoa has joined its brothers and sisters at the table of the Pacific Islands Forum,” Governor Lemanu P. S. Mauga said last week after American Samoa’s application for Associate Member of the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu P.S. Mauga traveled to Tonga this past weekend to participate in the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting. This meeting marks a significant moment for American Samoa as forum leaders deliberate on the territory’s application for Associate...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Pacific foreign ministers have given their nod of approval for United States territories Guam and American Samoa to be associate members of main regional decision-making body, but a political expert says it is geopolitics at play.
The news was delivered by Pacific...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Lt. Governor Laapui Talauega Ale attended the Pacific Islands Forum Officials Committee (FOC) Meeting and the Forum Ministers Meeting (FMM) in Suva, Fiji last week as a critical step in joining the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) as an associate member, which gained approval...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Two US Pacific territories are steps closer to having their membership upgraded at the main political decision-making body in the region — the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF).
The Forum confirmed to RNZ Pacific that its representatives have visited Guam and American Samoa in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) delegation met this week with various American Samoa government leaders and non-profit organizations and will use the information to prepare a report, which they will present to the PIF Board of Directors on behalf of American Samoa in its...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG leaders, including Lt. Governor La’apui Talauega Ale, Dr. Dan Aga, and Governor’s Office Counsel Terry VanEaton, met with Pacific Islands Forum leaders on their arrival in the territory on Monday where discussions began on associate membership for American Samoa.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On the heels of American Samoa being granted observer status at the Micronesian Island Forum, the U.S. government has agreed to allow U.S. territories to join the Pacific Islands Forum as non-voting associate members, modifying an old policy that previously barred their...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Governor’s Office press release is disputing the report in PacNews and reprinted in Samoa News last week that the U.S. State Department is opposed to Am Samoa’s membership in the Pacific Islands Forum.
American Samoa’s efforts to seek Associate Membership status in...
WASHINGTON — The federal government has poured cold water on Guam and American Samoa’s hopes of gaining membership in the Pacific Islands Forum, stating that U.S. territories are constitutionally restricted from representing themselves in foreign policy-making bodies.
“Because the United States is...