{"id":54815,"date":"2000-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-11-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/965c18df-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2000-11-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-11-23T00:00:00","slug":"965c18f0-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/965c18f0-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji offers help, cooperation to Kiribati and Tuvalu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suva (PINA Nius Online) &#8211; Fiji&#8217;s interim government is offering special help and cooperation to Kiribati and Tuvalu following the Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Tarawa.<\/p>\n<p>A Fiji government statement said a Cabinet meeting has directed:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 the immigration department as a matter of urgency to facilitate the issuing of permits for students from Kiribati, Tuvalu and other neighboring countries;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Minister for Lands and Mineral Resources to consider favorably and sympathetically Tuvalu&#8217;s quest to buy freehold land in Fiji, particularly land where the original indigenous Fijian landowners have indicated no interest in buying it back;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade to follow up a non-reciprocal trade agreement in favor of Kiribati and a possible direct shipping link between Rabi island in Fiji and Kiribati;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to follow up a possible joint request with Tuvalu and Kiribati for Japanese assistance to buy a ship to operate between the three countries and promote trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji&#8217;s interim government is offering special help and cooperation to Kiribati and Tuvalu following the Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Tarawa.<\/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-54815","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\/54815","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=54815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}