HE presents official engagements at April sitting
His Excellency President David
Adeang presented several ministerial statements at the 5 April
parliament sitting. In his overview of events he engaged in since
the end of January, President Adeang first acknowledged the
celebration of the 56th Independence Day and Nauru's hosting the
Miss Pacific Islands pageant and various sporting events.
President Adeang noted the leaders
and delegations who visited Nauru to attend the celebrations
including the President of Kiribati Taneti Maamau, President of FSM
Wesley Simina, Deputy Prime Minister of Samoa, Minister Assistant
to the President of the Marshall Islands Bremity Lakjohn, Minister
for International Development and the Pacific Patrick Conroy,
Chairman of the PRC International Development Cooperation Agency
Luo Zhaohui, Ambassador of Japan Rokuichiro Michi, Ambassador of
France Francois-Xavier Leger, and Ambassador of Saudi Arabia Sultan
Fahad A Bin. President Adeang held bilateral meetings with the
leaders and discussed opportunities for strengthening international
relationships and fostering collaboration on key issues, and looks
forward to strengthening bonds and a future of continued prosperity
and peace. In February President Adeang had several bilateral
meetings, first with the US Ambassador to Nauru Marie Damour to
strengthen the relations with USA for mutual benefits. The Regional
Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Shane Rosenthal also
met with President Adeang and assured priority resource allocation
for the development of Nauru as well as work to be done on the
banking issue and the port development project. Towards the end of
February President Adeang highlighted his attendance at the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Pacific Islands high level
conference with finance ministers and central bank governors of the
region in Fiji. Discussions at the IMF conference focused on
debanking in the Pacific, digital money and Blue Economy. President
Adeang also had bilateral meetings with finance and foreign
ministers and the IMF. Following the IMF meeting, President Adeang
highlighted several other meetings in New Zealand on Nauru's
Intergenerational Trust Fund as well as meetings with the NZ Prime
Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, focusing on enhancing economic
and banking relations, expanding educational opportunities, and
exploring partnerships in various sectors including climate change,
renewable energy, and seasonal worker programs. President Adeang
said NZ Prime Minister Luxon assured the full support of the
incoming secretary general of the Pacific Islands Forum, Baron
Waqa. Nauru and NZ also agreed to open the Nauru High Commission in
NZ to deepen diplomatic and bilateral relations between both
countries. Following on from the initial IMF conference in Fiji and
NZ meetings, President Adeang was in Tonga in early March to meet
with Prime Minister Siaosi Hu'akavameiliku when Tonga offered its
International Seabed Authority (ISA) council seat to Nauru for the
term 2024-25 and offered its full support to Nauru for the seabed
harvesting project. Tonga will host the upcoming Pacific Islands
Forum (PIF) leaders' summit in August and offers its full support
to the incoming PIF SG Baron Waqa. Then on 14 March, a delegation
from the Bank of China was in Nauru to study the country's
financial and banking situation and promote national economic
growth through globalisation and corporate banking services.
President Adeang also noted the presentation of credentials during
the month of March of Egypt Ambassador Hani Mohammed Nagi
Abdelhamid; Arab Republic of Brazil Ambassador Claudio Frederico de
Matos Arruda; Federal Republic of Germany Ambassador Ms Beate
Grzeski, and the appointment of the Alamanda Lauti as the first
Honorary Consul of German to Nauru. ENDS///