{"id":22088,"date":"2012-06-19T08:53:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T08:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=22088"},"modified":"2012-06-19T08:53:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T08:53:28","slug":"apil-delegates-start-arriving-for-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/apil-delegates-start-arriving-for-general-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"APIL delegates start arriving for general assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Haidee V. Eugenio<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Lawmakers and other dignitaries from the region have started arriving for the Association of Pacific Island Legislatures&#8217; 31st General Assembly that will open tomorrow, Legislative Bureau director Melchor Mendiola said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Mendiola said the first few delegates arrived on Sunday and Monday, but a majority will arrive today.<\/p>\n<p>APIL&#8217;s general assembly seeks to foster regional cooperation on a host of issues such as tourism, airlines, environmental protection, and economic development.<\/p>\n<p>The four-day event is expected to draw over 50 off-island visitors and some 150 from the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Benigno R. Fitial will deliver the opening remarks, while U.S. Office of Insular Affairs&#8217; Nikolau Pula will be the keynote speaker. The opening ceremony will start at 9am on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>The first morning session will also see a call to order by APIL president Rebluud Kesolei of Palau, followed by roll call of member entities by APIL vice president Judith Won Pat of Guam.<\/p>\n<p>Member delegations will also deliver opening remarks, including those from American Samoa, Pohnpei, Chuuk, Kosrae, Yap, Guam, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Hawaii, and the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>The presentations include those on tourism and airlines, cruise line industry, and connecting the Blue Continent, and natural resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Haidee V. Eugenio Reporter Lawmakers and other dignitaries from the region have started arriving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}