{"id":320406,"date":"2020-04-06T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=320406"},"modified":"2020-04-06T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T20:00:10","slug":"compact-funds-to-help-build-quarantine-facilities-in-fsm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/compact-funds-to-help-build-quarantine-facilities-in-fsm\/","title":{"rendered":"Compact funds to help build quarantine facilities in FSM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/strong>\u2014The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Friday the release of Compact of Free Association financial assistance to the Federated States of Micronesia. These emergency funds will help support and strengthen hospital and quarantine infrastructure in Chuuk State as the FSM works to contain the spread and impacts of the global coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have redirected $416,918 in prior-year Compact Infrastructure Maintenance Fund assistance to strengthen FSM\u2019s efforts in preparing for this global pandemic,\u201d said Insular and International Affairs assistant secretary Douglas W. Domenech. \u201cAt the direction of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, we are moving quickly and decisively to support the FSM, which is critical in these difficult times.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. and the FSM members of the Joint Economic Management Committee are in favor of this\u00a0decision\u00a0to\u00a0direct Compact funds\u00a0toward COVID-19 infrastructure maintenance,\u201d said\u00a0JEMCO chair and Office of Insular Affairs director Nikolao Pula. \u201cWe applaud officials, health care workers, and all at the national and state levels as they work to protect lives in the FSM.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States and the FSM share a special and unique relationship,\u201d said U.S. Ambassador to the FSM Carmen G. Cantor. \u201cThe United States government is committed to working with the FSM to advance their response capabilities to this global pandemic.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Additional Compact funding requests are being prepared for review by the Office of Insular Affairs as the FSM finalizes its COVID-19 Preparation and Response Plan. The plan will then be submitted to the U.S. government to ensure coordination of efforts. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Friday the release of Compact of Free&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":309809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[478,1589],"class_list":["post-320406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-fsm","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320406","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}