{"id":376678,"date":"2022-09-28T06:06:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T20:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=376678"},"modified":"2022-09-28T06:06:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T20:06:22","slug":"panuelo-solicits-peace-corps-to-return-to-fsm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/panuelo-solicits-peace-corps-to-return-to-fsm\/","title":{"rendered":"Panuelo solicits Peace Corps to return to FSM\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_376679\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-376679\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Peace-Corp.-Panuelo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-376679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Peace-Corp.-Panuelo-280x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-376679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David W. Panuelo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PALIKIR, Pohnpei\u2014Federated States of Micronesia President David W. Panuelo wanted the return of Peace Corps Volunteers to the islands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn so many ways, the Peace Corps\u2019 contributions were the greatest testaments to the good and enduring partnership between our two countries. From assisting in the procurement of grants ranging from funding Upward Bound programs to water catchment tanks in remote islands, and from developing health curricula to building sustainable school gardens, and from teaching English and Science in our classrooms while building capacity with local counterparts to partnering with principals on how to improve our school accreditation processes, Peace Corps Volunteers\u2014who learn our languages and cultures, who live amongst us and with us as family\u2014remain, by an order of magnitude, the best bridge at uniting peoples and promoting peace,\u201d Panuelo wrote in his Sept. 25 letter to Carol Spahn, chief executive officer of the U.S. Peace Corps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not enough, in my view,\u201d the president continued, \u201cfor the FSM-U.S. Enduring Partnership to be strictly viewed under the lens of our Compact of Free Association and regional peace and security; while the Compact is important, and regional security is important, what is ultimately just as important\u2014and risks being forgotten\u2014is the everyday well-being of our citizens. With the reinstatement of the Peace Corps in the FSM, our two governments and peoples can work closely together to strengthen our FSM-US Enduring Partnership to newer and greater heights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the intended discussions at the forthcoming U.S.-Pacific Summit is on People-Centered Development. It is the hope and intention of the FSM government to ensure that the U.S. Peace Corps hears loudly and clearly that the return of their program to the FSM, and to many other Pacific countries, is essential towards strengthening U.S.-Pacific relations. <em>(PR)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALIKIR, Pohnpei\u2014Federated States of Micronesia President David W. Panuelo wanted the return of Peace Corps&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":376680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1109],"class_list":["post-376678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-peace-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376678","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=376678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}