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1945 |
After WW II the Caroline Islands became trust territories of the United States, eventually gaining independence as Micronesia in 1986 and Palau in 1994. Links: USA, Micronesia, Palau, Caroline Islands 
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1971 |
Australia joined with New Zealand and 14 independent of self-governing island nations to form the South Pacific Forum. The name was changed in 2000 to Pacific Islands Forum. Member states include: Australia, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Since 2006, associate members territories are New Caledonia and French Polynesia. In 2011 Guam, the Northern Marianas and American Samoa became associate members. Links: Australia, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Guam, Samoa, Fiji, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Marianas, Micronesia, Kiribati, Niue, Palau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands
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1994 |
Palau became an independent nation. Links: Palau
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2003 Aug 14 |
The 16-member Pacific Islands Forum (Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Marshall Islands, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu) planned to create a region-wide aviation market aimed at encouraging tourism. Links: Australia, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, Kiribati, Palau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Nieu, Solomon Islands
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2007 Aug 7 |
Administers in Vienna said that the mid-Pacific nation of Palau has ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, bringing to 139 the number of countries that have fully endorsed the pact. The treaty, which bans all nuclear explosions, will not enter into force until it has been ratified by 44 states listed in an annex that participated in a 1996 disarmament conference and have nuclear power or research reactors. Only 34 of the 44 countries have both signed and ratified the pact. The holdouts are China, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea and the United States. Links: Austria, Nuclear, Palau
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2008 May |
Pacific Island nations imposed a series of measures aimed at halting overfishing. 8 of 17 members of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission agreed on the measures In December the 9 remaining members joined in imposing a conservation agenda on 20 million square miles to take effect on January 1, 2010. The 17 members included Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu. Links: Australia, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Fish, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, Kiribati, Niue, Palau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Solomon Islands
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2009 Jun 10 |
Palau agreed to accept 17 Chinese Muslims who have languished in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay. President Johnson Toribiong said the decision of Palau, one of a handful of countries that does not recognize China and maintains diplomatic relations with Taiwan, was "a humanitarian gesture" intended to help the detainees restart their lives. Links: USA, Gitmo, Palau, Uighur
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2009 Sep 9 |
Lawyers said 3 Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay formally accepted an offer to take up new lives in the Pacific island nation of Palau and could be moved there as early as next month. Links: China, Gitmo, Palau, Uighur
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2009 Sep 25 |
Palau announced to the UN General Assembly that it is creating a shark and ray sanctuary over some 240,000 square miles around its coastline. Palau had just one boat to patrol the protected waters. Some 20,000 people populated the 190-square mile archipelago. Links: Environment, Fish, Palau
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2009 Nov 1 |
In Palau 6 Chinese Muslims, ethnic Uighers, newly released from Guantanamo Bay, traded life behind bars for rooms with ocean view in the tiny Pacific nation, which agreed to a US request to resettle them. Links: USA, Gitmo, Palau, Uighur
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2014 Jan 13 |
Japan said it has signed an agreement with Palau to allow Japanese companies to earn carbon credits by helping the small Pacific island cut greenhouse gas emissions. Links: Japan, Palau
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2014 |
Palau’s Pres. Tommy Remengesau proposed a complete ban on commercial fishing turning 600,000 square kms of its Exclusive Economi Zone into a marine reserve until world leaders implement programs to reverse devastations to its oceans and seas. Links: Palau
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2014 |
Palau with a population was about 20,000 had a GDP of about $246 million. Its 16 states spread across 250 islands. Links: Palau
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2015 Jan 21 |
British technology firm Satellite Applications Catapult launched a new satellite tracking system aiming to crack down on the industrial-scale theft known as "pirate fishing." Experts will be able to watch satellite feeds of the waters around Easter Island, a Chilean territory in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, and the western Pacific island nation of Palau. Links: Chile, Britain, Technology, Space, Fish, Palau
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2015 Jun 12 |
The tiny Pacific nation of Palau, fighting a rising tide of illegal fishing in its waters, set fire to four boats belonging to Vietnamese caught poaching sea cucumbers and other marine life in its waters. Links: Vietnam, Fish, Palau
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2015 Oct 28 |
The tiny Pacific island nation of Palau created a vast marine sanctuary the size of Spain, banning fishing across the bulk of its waters to preserve the ocean for future generations. Links: Environment, Fish, Palau
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2015 |
The population of the Palau archipelago numbered about 21,000. Links: Palau
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2017 Dec 5 |
The European Union put 17 non-EU countries on a blacklist of those it deems guilty of unfairly offering tax avoidance schemes. They Included: American Samoa, Bahrain, Barbados, Grenada, Guam, South Korea, Macau, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Namibia, Palau, Panama, St. Lucia, Samoa, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia and United Arab Emirates. Over 40 more were put on a "grey list" to be monitored until they are fully committed to reforms. Links: Bahrain, Panama, UAE, EU, Mongolia, South Korea, Marshall Islands, Trinidad&Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, St. Lucia, Guam, Samoa, Tunisia, Namibia, Palau, Macau, Amer. Samoa
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2017 |
China effectively banned tour groups to the tropical archipelago of Palau, branding it an illegal destination due to its lack of diplomatic status. Palau remained one of Taipei's 18 remaining allies and stood under pressure to switch allegiances. Prior to the ban, Chinese tourists accounted for about half the visitors to Palau. Links: China, Palau
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2019 Jun 17 |
It was reported that the Pacific nation of Palau has amended plans to create a huge marine reserve so Japanese fishing boats still have partial access to its waters. Links: Japan, Fish, Palau
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2020 Apr 15 |
Palau Pres. Tommy Remengesau said that his country of 20,000 people had not had a single case of the coronavirus and he was going to shut it off from the outside world to keep the virus out. Links: Palau
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2022 Jun 7 |
In Fiji six Pacific Islands Forum nations (Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Palau, Marshall Islands and Samoa) agreed on how to overcome a major rift and proposed reforms to the region's major diplomatic group, which they said would strengthen solidarity and bolster them against internal and external pressures. Links: Marshall Islands, Samoa, Fiji, Cook Islands, Micronesia, Palau
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2022 Jul 1 |
A representative from the tiny Pacific nation of Palau hit out at the UN for not allowing Taiwanese nationals to be part of its delegation list at the Ocean Conference in Lisbon. Links: Taiwan, UN, Palau
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