Island Job Marshall
The Marshall Plan: The Vision of a Family of Nations – Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
The second lesson we can learn from the experience of General Marshall and the Marshall Plan is the need for patience and for a sense of proportion. Many people today assume that the Marshall Plan was an obvious and popular solution to a well-defined problem and that it worked quickly and efficiently and effectively. But that's not how it was. It took nine months to persuade a suspicious and reluctant Congress to act and it took nearly four years before the program had been fully implemented in Europe. And it took still more time for the many positive political spin-offs of the Marshall Plan to become apparent, to develop, which included not only NATO and the OECD but also the foundation of the European Union. ... [Read More]
Regional Printing Center - East Asia Pacific, Manila
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Department of State Washington File: Text: U.S. Seeks to Amend Compact with Micronesia, Marshall Islands
Thank you for this opportunity to testify on the Administration's progress in Compact negotiations with the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). ... The Bush administration is seeking to amend the Compact of Free Association with the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). ... The annual grants to the FSM and RMI will be targeted to sectors most in need of assistance: (a) education, (b) health, and (c) infrastructure. Other areas of special need include capacity building, the environment, and private sector development. The U.S. also proposes to provide an additional $4.1 million per year to the RMI for the special needs of Ebeye (the main island community housing the U.S. defense sites' Marshallese work force) and other Kwajalein atoll communities. ... [Read More]
Earth Day 1996 Bibliography
Earth Island Journal: an International Environmental NewsMagazine, Earth Island Institute, quarterly, ISSN1041-0406 ... Miller, Joseph A., et al. The Island Press Bibliography ofEnvironmental Literature. Island Press, 1993, cloth, ISBN1-55963-189-9 ... Island Press. Eco-Compass. ... [Read More]
USIS Washington File: TEXT: 10/1 ROTH TESTIMONY ON FREELY ASSOCIATED STATES
The Freely Associated States were formerly part of the Trust Territory of Pacific Islands (TTPI), a group of islands administered by the United States after 1947 under a UN Strategic Mandate. In 1969, the United States entered into discussion with representatives of the various islands on their future political status, a process which had different outcomes for the four island groupings in the Trust Territory. ... The people of the Northern Mariana Islands opted for an association with the United States that made them U.S. citizens. In January 1978, the United States began administering the Northern Mariana Islands under provisions of the negotiated and Congressionally approved Commonwealth Covenant. On November 3, 1986, the Northern Mariana Islands became a Commonwealth in political union with the United States. ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
How and when the Palauan Islands were first settled is uncertain. Perhaps about 10,000 years ago, people moved into the Micronesian islands from what is now Indonesia and the Philippines. The first permanent settlements, however, may not have been before 500 A.D. The first extended contact with Western civilization occurred in 1783 when the British vessel ‘Antelope’ shipwrecked near Koror. Outside important trade routes, Palau was generally left alone until Spain formalized claims to Palau in 1885. In 1899 Germany purchased most of Spain's Micronesian island chains in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War. Germany lost possession to Japan in 1914. The League of Nations formally extended Japan's mandate in 1920. During World War II, on September 15, 1944, U.S. forces landed on the Palauan islands of Peleliu and Angaur where they fought one of the memorable battles of the Pacific war. In 1945 control of Pa ... [Read More]
Remarks at the Transatlantic Democracy Network Conference
But at this meeting a common agenda emerged -- let me share it with you. The first is to finish the job of democratization of the Balkans, the job that we began so well together in the mid- 1990s when NATO stopped the Bosnia war and NATO kept the peace there for nine years. NATO stopped the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo in March, April, May and June of 1999. NATO has kept the peace there for six years. That job’s not finished. Because if our largest strategic objective between Europe and America has been for a good 15 years the creation of a Europe that is united, peaceful and stable, we can’t achieve that vision together unless Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia and Kosovo and Serbia Montenegro and Albania and Macedonia are part of it. ... [Read More]
Article Alert, Archives--Electronic Journals, Dept. of State
EJ06 -- Roger Rosenblatt, Professor of English and Writing at Long Island University's Southampton College; Essayist Time Magazine. A PATRIOT'S PROGRESS: SEPTEMBER 11 AND FREEDOM IN AMERICA ... EJ07 -- Ronald D. Asmus, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States, and Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations. HAVING AN IMPACT: THINK TANKS AND THE NATO ENLARGEMENT DEBATE ... [Read More]
Other Multi-Lateral Organizations & Programs
To develop a sustainable institutional capacity in the Caribbean region to address the issues related to anti-money laundering efforts at a local, regional and international level, by strengthening existing institutional capacity at the regional level, and developing new, or enhancing existing, institutional capacity at the local level.The Programme consisted of three separate, yet interlinked, sub-programs: Legal/Judicial After conducting worldwide research of anti-money laundering laws, regulations and working practices, the legal/judicial advisor made appropriate recommendations to the respective member countries to ensure they have the necessary legal structures in place to combat money laundering. Countries with very limited facilities were also provided legislative drafting ass ... [Read More]
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