{"id":55615,"date":"2001-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/96a2d3ba-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-01-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"96a2d3d0-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/96a2d3d0-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiribati&#039;s first overseas diplomatic body in Suva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TARAWA, Kiribati (PINA Nius Online) \u2014 The Cabinet has approved the establishment of Kiribati&#8217;s first diplomatic mission, a high commission in Suva, Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>The government newsletter said the government has established a task force to make arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>A senior official from Foreign Affairs, Reeteta Nikuata, told Radio Kiribati News that the government chose Fiji for its first overseas mission because of the many regional organisations Fiji hosts.<\/p>\n<p>These cover areas that the government is interested in developing, such as trade and training, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The high commission will also boost diplomatic relations between Kiribati and Fiji, she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said an official from the Office of the President will chair the task force.<\/p>\n<p>The task force is due to hold its first meeting sometime this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cabinet has approved the establishment of Kiribati&#8217;s first diplomatic mission, a high commission in Suva, Fiji.<\/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-55615","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\/55615","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=55615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}