PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA $1.00 FRIDAY MAY 19, 2017 DAILY CIRCULATION 7,000 ONLINE @ SAMOANEWS.COM C M Y K C M Y K Tulaueleele va’alele su’esu’e USCoast Guard “Hercules C130” ma Ripoti ASG Office of Political Status presents at annual UN decoloni- zation seminar Police commissioner says police cases all “goes through the process” Page 11 Le Lali Page 15 A new art exhibition in Whangarei featuring Pacific artists is pushing the boundaries about the notion of women’s work in everyday society. e show is aimed at challenging old and new stereotypes around the work of women considering how it can be challenged, celebrated, hidden or illuminated. Lead artist Tui Emma Gillies contributed a piece constructed around the Tongan word for women, fēfine. Her first piece of work titled “fēfine one”, shows a woman who is breast-feeding with an umbilical cord around her neck that goes down to her heart and is painted onto a tapa cloth. See story inside. [Photo: Supplied/ Tui Emma Gillies] FO’ISIA SINKS, AT MALALOA MARINA A sad ending to the $300,000+ government boat, the Fo’isia bought in 2009, by former Gov. Togiola Tula- fono, to serve as a passenger vessel for the Manu’a islands. Samoa News was called on Wednesday, May 7, 2017 to come out and take a photo of the vessel before it sank at the Malaloa Marina. When the Samoa News photographer arrived, very little remained above water; and a faint blue-green oil or fuel sheen was noticed. But, it was difficult to know if it was from the sinking vessel, or from the longliners and smaller yachts berthed next to the sinking boat. It’s unknown at this time as to what caused the demise of the vessel. e caller would like to send out a special thanks to the US Coast Guard and Tim Jones for their help. He told Samoa News that while Port Administration finally showed up with their tugboat — “by then it was too late” — the Fo’isia had sunk. In 2009, Togiola said he hoped the vessel would eventually be allowed to carry more than just the six passengers it was certified to carry at the time. No cargo was allowed. e vessel was bought through the governor’s transportation consultant, George Wray, who told Samoa News it would be used to ferry groups of people such as distinguished guests, but not for regu- larly scheduled runs. But, some Manu’a residents told the paper they understood the vessel was to be used for regular transport between the Manu’a islands. e last time the vessel was heard about was that it was allegedly given to the Swains Islands for use, but it had engine problems that were too costly to repair. However, Samoa News was unable to confirm this as of press time. [Photo: AF] tusia Ausage Fausia O le taimi o le sauniga e fa’atauto aloaia ai le afioga a Fuamatau J.V Fuamatu e avea ma Kovana Itumalo o le Falelima i Sisifo i le taeao ananafi, na tulei saunoa ai le afioga i le ali’i Kovana ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga e fa’amanino le mafua’aga na ia filifilia ai le afioga i le Alala Matuatala ia Fuamatu na te fa’aauauina le tofi Kovana Itumalo sa tauave mai e Lualemaga E. Faoa ua tu’umalo. Saunoa Lolo e fa’apea, atonu pau lea o le avanoa e o o atu ai le tofi i le itumalo o Alataua, aua afai loa e nofoia uma suafa Fa’asuaga i totonu o le Falelima i Sisifo e aofia ai le suafa Letuli, Tuitele, Fuimaono, fa’apea ai ma le suafa Satele e pei ona nofoia mai i le taimi nei, e le toe o o lava le tofi i le itumalo o Alataua. Na fa’atumulia le potu fono a le Ofisa o le Kovana i ta’ita’i o le malo, sui o le Falelima i Fa’amanino Kovana mafua’aga na filifilia ai Fuamatu e avaea ma Kovana Itumalo (Faaauau itulau 2)
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PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA $1.00FRIDAY MAY 19, 2017
DAILY CIRCULATION 7,000
ONLINE @ SAMOANEWS.COM
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Tulaueleele va’alele su’esu’e USCoast Guard “Hercules C130” ma Ripoti
ASG Office of Political Status presents at annual UN decoloni-zation seminar
Police commissioner says police cases all “goes through the process”
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Le Lali
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A new art exhibition in Whangarei featuring Pacific artists is pushing the boundaries about the notion of women’s work in everyday society.
The show is aimed at challenging old and new stereotypes around the work of women considering how it can be challenged, celebrated, hidden or illuminated.
Lead artist Tui Emma Gillies contributed a piece constructed around the Tongan word for women, fēfine. Her first piece of work titled “fēfine one”, shows a woman who is breast-feeding with an umbilical cord around her neck that goes down to her heart and is painted onto a tapa cloth. See story inside.
[Photo: Supplied/ Tui Emma Gillies]
FO’ISIA SINKS, AT MALALOA MARINAA sad ending to the $300,000+ government boat, the Fo’isia bought in 2009, by former Gov. Togiola Tula-
fono, to serve as a passenger vessel for the Manu’a islands. Samoa News was called on Wednesday, May 7, 2017 to come out and take a photo of the vessel before it
sank at the Malaloa Marina. When the Samoa News photographer arrived, very little remained above water; and a faint blue-green oil or fuel sheen was noticed. But, it was difficult to know if it was from the sinking vessel, or from the longliners and smaller yachts berthed next to the sinking boat. It’s unknown at this time as to what caused the demise of the vessel. The caller would like to send out a special thanks to the US Coast Guard and Tim Jones for their help. He told Samoa News that while Port Administration finally showed up with their tugboat — “by then it was too late” — the Fo’isia had sunk. In 2009, Togiola said he hoped the vessel would eventually be allowed to carry more than just the six passengers it was certified to carry at the time. No cargo was allowed. The vessel was bought through the governor’s transportation consultant, George Wray, who told Samoa News it would be used to ferry groups of people such as distinguished guests, but not for regu-larly scheduled runs. But, some Manu’a residents told the paper they understood the vessel was to be used for regular transport between the Manu’a islands.
The last time the vessel was heard about was that it was allegedly given to the Swains Islands for use, but it had engine problems that were too costly to repair. However, Samoa News was unable to confirm this as of press time. [Photo: AF]
tusia Ausage Fausia
O le taimi o le sauniga e fa’atauto aloaia ai le afioga a Fuamatau J.V Fuamatu e avea ma Kovana Itumalo o le Falelima i Sisifo i le
taeao ananafi, na tulei saunoa ai le afioga i le ali’i Kovana ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga e fa’amanino le mafua’aga na ia filifilia ai le afioga i le Alala Matuatala ia Fuamatu na te fa’aauauina le tofi Kovana Itumalo sa tauave mai e Lualemaga E. Faoa ua tu’umalo.
Saunoa Lolo e fa’apea, atonu pau lea o le avanoa e o o atu ai le tofi i le itumalo o Alataua, aua afai loa e nofoia uma suafa Fa’asuaga i totonu o le Falelima i Sisifo e aofia ai le suafa Letuli, Tuitele, Fuimaono, fa’apea ai ma le suafa Satele e pei ona nofoia mai i le taimi nei, e le toe o o lava le tofi i le itumalo o Alataua.
Na fa’atumulia le potu fono a le Ofisa o le Kovana i ta’ita’i o le malo, sui o le Falelima i
Fa’amanino Kovana mafua’aga na filifilia ai Fuamatu e avaea ma Kovana Itumalo
(Faaauau itulau 2)
Le taimi na sainia ai e le afioga i le Kovana Itumalo o fou o le Falelima i Sisifo ia Fuamatu J.V Fuamatu le pepa fa’amaonia mo le filifilia o ia, a o molimauina e le afioga i le ali’i Fa’amasino Lago-lago ia Suapaia Pereira ma le tofa Fiu Saelua. [ata AF]
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Sisifo fa’apea ai uo ma aiga o le afioga a Fuamatu na fa’amalo’ulo’u atu latou te molimauina lenei sauniga taua, lea na tatala aloaia i se sauniga lotu puupuu a o lumana’i ai le sauniga o le fa’atautoina o le Kovana Itumalo fou.
O le afioga i le ali’i Fa’amasino Lagolago ia Suapaia Pereira na fa’atautoina le afioga a Fuamatu, a o molimauina e le mamalu o malo, uo ma aiga e aofia ai le afioga i le ali’i kovana ia Lolo, o le lutena kovana ia Lemanu Peleti Mauga, fa’apea ai ma le afioga i le Failau-tusi o le Ofisa o Mataupu Tau Samoa ia Mauga Tasi Asuega ma sui o lona Ofisa.
Sa i ai fo’i le afioga i le Fofoga Fetalai ia Savali Talavou Ale ma lona fal-etua ia Beauty, fa’apea ai afioga i Senatoa ia Fai-ivae Godinet ma Fonoti T. Aufata.
Na fa’afetaia e le ali’i kovana le paia o le Fale-lima i le avanoa sa tu’uina atu na te faia ai le filifi-liga mo se tasi e avea ma Kovana Itumalo, ma e le o se fa’aiuga sa faigofie ia te ia.
“O le mea moni lava, e leai so matou lagona ma
Ta’ita’i o le atunu’u sa matou auai fa’atasi i le tau-mafaiga o lenei fa’aiuga e vavevave so matou manatu i le fa’aiuga e pei ona matou faia, sa lafo atu pea lava i le mamalu o le Falelima le avanoa e saili ai le tofa ma le fa’autaga i se tasi e avea ma Kovana Itumalo”, o le saunoaga lea a Lolo.
“Ae fa’afetai atu i le paia o le Falelima i ona mamalu eseese, ina ua tasi la outou tofa e taoto mai le fa’aiuga o le mataupu matou te faia se fa’aiuga, ma o le mea moni, e le i faigofie ona saili latou fa’aiuga e tusa ai o lenei mataupu, aua o tofi nei a le atunu’u e ‘au uma i ai tupu ma e’e o le atunu’u, o Samoa fo’i ma lona maota ua uma ona tofi, e faigata la ona toe faia i ai sa matou fa’aiuga”.
“A matou vaavaai atu i itu uma o la tatou aganu’u e tofu uma, e le faigofie, pau le itu sa taula’i i ai la matou vaai, o le fale o Samoa ua uma ona tofi, ona paia fo’i ma mamalu e le toe fesiligia e se tasi, e afua mai mauga maualuluga seia oo mai i le atunu’u lautele, o paia na o Samoa e le toe autaluina i se manatu o se tagata, o le faiva fo’i o Faleupolu latou te tausia tupu ma Fa’asuaga
o le atunu’u”.Na fa’amanino atili e
le ali’i kovana e fa’apea, talu ai e le o nofoia le tele o Fa’asuaga i le Falelima i Sisifo, na mafua ai ona faia la latou fa’aiuga ma le afioga a Lemanu fa’apea ai le afioga i le Maoputasi ia Mauga, ina ia see atu loa le tofi Kovana Itumalo e tauave e Alataua, aua o le taimi lava e nofoia ai suafa nei o Fa’asuaga, e le toe oo lava le tofi i le Alataua.
E pei ona masani ai Samoa ma ana agaifanua, a mae’a le fa’apaiaina o ni tofi maualuluga faapenei a le atunu’u, ona alo lea o le paia o aiga i ana fa’aaloaloga masani, lea na avea ai le tofa i le Tautootoo ia Savali e fai ma fofoga o le itumalo o Alataua, mo le fa’aleoina o le agaga fa’afetai i le malo fa’apea ai ona ta’ita’i, ona o le fa’aaloalo maualuga ua tu’uina atu i le Alataua e tautua ai i le tofi Kovana Itumalo.
Na fa’ai’u fa’aaloaloga masani i le tufatufaina o meaalofa tupe i le mamalu o le au valaaulia fa’apea ai ta’ita’i o le atunu’u, e fai meaalofa atu ai le afioga i le Kovana Itumalo fou ia Fuamatu.
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Associate Judge Suapaia Pereira (far left) administers the oath of office for the new Western District Governor, Fuamatu J.V. Fuamatu, (middle) at the Governor’s Office Conference Room yesterday morning. Holding the Bible is Fuamatu’s wife. In a general memorandum dated May 15, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga appointed Fuamatu, who is a traditional leader from Alataua county, as the new Western District Governor, a post left vacant since the passing early this year of the late Lualemaga Faoa.
The governor’s appointment, which became effec-tive the date of the memo, came a week after May 8th meeting of Western District traditional leaders failed to reach a consensus on the next District Governor and agreed that the final decision would be given to the gov-ernor to make. Western District traditional leaders pre-sented to the governor the names to decide on for the next district governor: Fuamatu, Tuiasina S. Esera of Tualatai county, and Leatualevao S. Asifoa of Leasina/Aitulagi county. All three traditional leaders are former
senators. Lolo delivered brief remarks at yesterday’s swearing
in ceremony, lead by Deputy Secretary of Samoan Affairs Malemo Tausaga, and attended by Fuamatu’s family members, Western District leaders, such as Sens. Fonoti Tafaifa Aufata and Fai’ivae Iuli Godinet as well as House Speaker Savali Talavou Ale, who one of the traditional leaders of Alataua County. Lt. Gov. Lemanu Palepoi Sialega Mauga and Manu’a District Governor Laolagi F.S. Vaeao were also in attendance.
Lolo says its not the wish of the government to take over the appointment of these important traditional lead-ership posts which are the sole responsibilities of the tra-ditional leaders in each district, and was the reason there was no rush to select the next district governor until the Western District Council had met and made their deci-sion. Lolo says the district had reached the decision for him, with recommendation from Samoan Affairs Sec-retary, to make the final selection and that came down
to Fuamatu and Lolo suspects that this will be the only time that district governor post will be held by a tradi-tional leader from Alataua county.V He says if the other Western District titular tiles are occupied — Letuli, Tuitele, Fuimaono (Satele titular title currently occupied) — “we believe the District Governor post will never be taken up by a traditional leader” of Alataua county in the future. Speaking on behalf of Fuamatu, Alataua County as well as the Western District, Savali expressed appre-ciation to the governor, Mauga and others in attendance for their support.
Absent from yesterday ceremony was Sen. Satele Galu Satele Sr., who had selected Tuiasina as the new district governor, a selection that was opposed by many Western District traditional leaders, resulting in the May 8th meeting at Samoan Affairs Office. Tuiasina also didn’t attend the ceremony.
(Samoan story on swearing in ceremony published in the Lali section of today’s Samoa News.) [photo: AF]
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FUAMATU J.V. FUAMATU SWORN IN AS WESTERN DISTRICT GOVERNOR
Translated by Samoa News staffDAVID FO’A
New charges the government filed in District Court against David Fo’a include fourteen felonies and the charges stems from the defendant breaking into at least nine different stores on the Western District.
Fo’a was in High Court for the continuation of his change of plea hearing, with a plea agreement already signed by both sides. However, the court rejected the plea, prompting the government to file new charges, although the defendant has been in custody for more than six months for pre-trial confinement.
The new charges against Fo’a were bound over to the High Court early this week and the defendant entered a not guilty plea with pre trial confer-ence hearing scheduled for July while trial is set for November 2018.
According to court infor-mation, the defendant is facing nine counts of first degree bur-glary, five counts of stealing — all felonies — and two counts of third degree property damage, both misdemeanors.
Court information states that in one of the stores broken into by the defendant, he stole $100
worth of merchandise as well as $800 in cash that was in a bottle under the store’s counter.
Much of the goods and mer-chandise the defendant alleg-edly stole from the stores he broke in to has been returned to the police. For the cash he allegedly stole, the defendant told police that he already spent the money.
JOSEPH YANDALLAn 87-year old man, accused
in connecting with a case involving two minor females, was arraigned in High Court on Wednesday after his case was bound over on Monday from District Court.
According to court informa-tion, Joseph Yandall is charged with one count of child molesta-tion, attempted kidnapping and attempted sexual abuse in the first degree — all felonies. Yan-dall is released on a $75,000 bail.
During the arraignment hearing in High Court, the defendant, through his attorney, entered a not guilty plea. His pre trial conference hearing is set for next month, at which time the court will know from both sides as to the status of the case moving forward.
Court information states that the alleged female vic-
tims in the case are a 12-year-old — resulting in the child molestation charge — and a 16-year-old.
SAUFO’I TUSIGADuring a status hearing early
this week, District Court Judge Fiti A. Sunia ordered a psycho-logical assessment of defendant Saufo’i Tusiga, to see if he is fit to stand trial.
The court’s order followed a motion by the government, which has charged the defen-dant with first-degree sexual assault and first-degree burglary — both felonies.
Saufo’i’s father was in court during the hearing and Sunia told the father that his son needs to be assessed as to the mental state of his mind.
Since his arrest recently, the defendant has been in custody at the hospital where he’s being treated and getting medication. Saufo’i’s next court appearance is May 25th.
The charges against the defendant stem from an incident early last month in which he allegedly broke into the home of a female victim and allegedly touched the victim’s private parts.
(Original Samoan stories in today’s Lali section of Samoa News)
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In its story, “Court upholds three felony sex charges against Okense Alo” — published on Thursday, May 18, 2017, Samoa News failed to mention that Okesene Alo came before the court on Wednesday, May 17, 2017, charged with thirteen counts of sexual related offenses, of which only three were upheld, the other ten sex charges were dismissed.
CLARIFICATION
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American Samoa GovernmentOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
LOLO M. MOLIGAGovernor of American Samoa
PROCLAMATIONWORLD NO TOBACCO DAY
MAY 31, 2015 THEME: “Stop Illicit Trade of Tobacco Products”
WHEREAS, Every Year, on May 31, WHO, CDC and partners mark World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), highlighting the health and additional risks associated with tobacco use, and advocating for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption; andWHEREAS, about 6 million people die from tobacco use every year, a figure that is predicted to grow to more than 8 million a year by 2030 without intensified action. Tobacco use is a threat to any person, regardless of gender, age, race, cultural or educational background. It bring suffering, disease, and death, impoverishing families and hurting economies; andWHEREAS,, the WHO Framework Convention or Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) guides the global fight against tobacco epidemic; andWHEREAS, one of the goals for this campaign is to Highlight the links between the use of tobacco products, tobacco control and sustainable development, and to encourage countries to include tobacco in their national responses to 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda; andWHEREAS, Support Member States are combating tobacco industry interference in political processes, in turn leading to stronger national tobacco control action and encourage broader public and partner participation in national, regional and global efforts to develop and implement development strategies and plans and achieve goals that prioritize action on tobacco control; andWHEREAS, individuals can contribute to making a sustainable, tobacco-free world, either by committing to never taking up tobacco products, or by quitting the habit. Through increasing cigarette taxes worldwide by US$1, an extra US$190 billion could be raised for development. High tobacco taxes contribute to revenue generation for governments, reduce demand for tobacco and offer an important revenue stream to finance development activities.WHEREAS, because of the tremendous toll in human suffering and death, directly caused by tobacco use, therefore, for World No Tobacco Day 2017, we are calling on our people and government leaders to join the World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) awareness-raising campaign through social media, and to amplify messages that governments and WHO will be issuing.NOW THEREFORE, I, Lolo Matalasi Moliga, Governor of American Samoa, do hereby proclaim the 31st day of May 2017, to be observed as the “World No Tobacco Day” in American Samoa. I urge all smokers to refrain from smoking on this day in hope, that it is a beginning of a life as a non-smoker. Further, I urge people of American Samoa, to support the activities planned by the Department of Health, Tobacco/Diabetes Prevention Control Programs, Tobacco/Diabetes Prevention Coalition Board and various Government agencies.IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office on this 12th Day of May, in the year of our Lord, two thousand seventeen.
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Washington, D.C. — Wednesday, May 17, 2017 — Congresswoman Aumua Amata was delighted to be vis-ited by the students involved in the Department of Interior Close-Up program. The stu-dents arrived over a week ago for a two-week visit to Wash-ington, where they have visited various different attractions.
“I was incredibly happy to be visited by the students this week. It is not often that I am able to meet constituents in Washington.
These 17 students and their teachers, who are part of the Close-Up program, have trav-elled 10,000 miles to be here and I am grateful to have been able to spend time with them,”
stated Amata.The Close-Up program is
a federally funded project that allows students from across the nation to visit their legislators in Washington, D.C. and whose mission is to “inform, inspire, and empower young people to exercise the rights and accept the responsibilities of citizens in a democracy.”
Included in the group were: Chaperones: Edney Apulu and Roxanne Salave’a; and Stu-dents: Angelo Mayer, Cher Nomura, Grace Sione, Hannah Lei E Utu, Isa-Lei Falaniko, Karlinna Sanchez, Leilani-marie Teofilo, Max Aper-aamo, Meroma Leifi, Milton Toleafoa, Samantha Scanlan, Sauiluma Afusia, Sebastian
Briski, Sekone Mafua, Selaina Tuato’o, Tereise Te’I, and Valovalo Vincent Pu’u Jr.
“I hope that the students were able to enjoy their time in Washington, and I wish them the best of luck as they finish up school,” concluded Amata.
Amata enjoys time with Close-Up kidsCongresswoman Amata is joined by the local Close-Up students in the House Natural Resources Committee Hearing Room, in Washington D.C. Amata serves on the
Natural Resources Committee, along with the Representatives from the other four territories. [Courtesy photo]
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compiled by Samoa News staffWOMEN’S WORK EXHI-BITION CHALLENGES
STEREOTYPESA new art exhibition in
Whangarei featuring Pacific art-ists is pushing the boundaries about the notion of women’s work in everyday society.
Pacific artists are among 15 artists exhibiting at Women’s Work, including Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows, Juliana Browneyes-Clifford, Emily Mafile’o, Karlo Mila, Lisa Taouma and Tui Emma Gillies.
The show is aimed at chal-lenging old and new stereotypes around the work of women considering how it can be chal-lenged, celebrated, hidden or illuminated.
Co-curator Billie Lythberg said it is an opportunity for people to respond to norma-tive responses to the tasks of women.
“Because so often these gen-dered ideas of work have been imposed I think by art histo-rians, by anthropologists, by sociologists. We theorise, we write and then things seem to be set.”
She said often women are expected to take on domestic tasks like cooking, sewing and child rearing, but this show explores a new definition for women’s roles through each art piece.
“Whereas within commu-nities, especially with artists, things are so much more fluid so it is something we have talked about for a long time. And the possibility of having a show at Geoff Wilson gave us the chance to really crystallize that.”
Lead artist Tui Emma Gil-lies has also helped organize the show and contributed a piece constructed around the Tongan
word for women, fēfine.Her first piece of work titled
fēfine one, took a month to construct and shows a woman who is breast-feeding with an umbilical cord around her neck that goes down to her heart and is painted onto a tapa cloth.
“There is a baby in there and she’s trying to look the part and she’s trying to look at what the expectations of a mother are today is to just be able to con-tinue to look good and also be able to raise children, sort of like superwoman,” she said. “So I wanted to portray that in a
piece of art.”Tui Gillies said she also
wanted to include her mother Sulieti Burrow’s work in their show.
Her mother is well known for her tapa art work and traditional art pieces, among other things.
The Women’s Work exhi-bition is on display on certain weekdays at Northtec’s Geoff Wilson Gallery until June 9.
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SHOWCASES PACIFIC CUISINE
Treasured Pacific dishes,
which have been locked up by Pacific families for generations are being introduced to diners in Auckland.
The recently opened Kai Pasifika restaurant is the first Pacific cuisine restaurant to be established in New Zealand. While it aims to celebrate tra-ditional Pacific foods, it also wants to change existing mis-conceptions about them.
The restaurant is a dream come true for celebrity chef Robert Oliver who has won top awards at the Gourmand World Cookbook awards for his mate-
rial on Pacific cuisine.Establishing the restaurant
began as a crowd-funding busi-ness venture which aimed to raise capital from the public.
Chief financial officer, Kenina Court, says the huge public interest they received during the funding campaign showed that having a Pacific Cuisine restaurant is impor-tant to New Zealand’s Pasifika community.
“There’s all this talk about how western food is much better than pacific food and in the islands it costs a lot more and it’s easy,” said Ms Court.
“So part of what we’re trying to do is actually take products that are produced in the islands and give them a platform to be showcased to the world. And then the second thing is around giving us back, as a group, as a culture and as a people, the pride that comes from our own food.”
The restaurant’s menu has reformatted well-known Pacific dishes to help bring diners a fresh appreciation of the region’s traditional foods.
Mr Oliver says honoring the traditions of Pacific foods has been key.
“The Chefs are now bringing dishes in from their background. They were challenged to think through, what from your grand-ma’s repertoire of recipes would be good on the menu?”
Mr Oliver says the ethnic diversity within his kitchen means that each cook brings a different flavor to the table.
Among Kitchen staff is a Fijian head chef, two Samoans, a Venezuelan, a European and a ni-Vanuatu woman who Mr Oliver met at a market in Port Vila.
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We thank the Police Force of American Samoafor all they do to keep us safe and free of crime.
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GRADUATION MESSAGE
LOLO M. MOLIGAGovernor of American Samoa
This graduation season again signals the triumph of the human spirit as obstacles and hurdles which could have easily derailed the educational journey of our children have been successfully overcome. This occasion is always filled with joy and excitement; sentiments being felt and experienced not only by the graduates but also by the parents, grandparents, families, friends, village, and government.
It is therefore most fitting and appropriate for graduates to take pleasure in the accolades, congratulations, well wishes, and praises expressed and extended by their parents, grandparents, family, friends, community and the government for they have sacrificed, persevered, committed, and worked hard to achieve this significant and important milestone in their life’s journey.
Graduation also manifests great satisfaction and jubilation for the parents, for their dreams for their children, inherent in the acquisition of knowledge and skills as the springboard to other opportunities to secure their future, have been fulfilled.
For all the teachers, graduation provides solid affirmation that they have been diligent and vigilant in carefully instilling knowledge as well as values that assures each graduate has been well prepared to become a good and productive citizen of American Samoa as well as the ability to surmount life’s challenges strewn in their path towards the actualization of their dreams.
The Government has always been thankful and gratified when the graduation season rolls around each year because its efforts to ensure that our territory continues to build its human capital capacity, vital to the advancement of our social, economic, and political goals guaranteeing that a secured future will be available to future generations, is sustained.
Lieutenant Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga join Cynthia and I, in congratulating 1,173 eighth graders, 1,175 high school graduates from both public and private schools and 89 students graduating from the American Samoa Community College. Our sincerest congratulations to all and profound thanks to the graduates, parents, grandparents, families, and the teachers for their respective investments in the future of American Samoa
American Samoa GovernmentOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
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By James Kneubuhl, ASCC Press Officer
American Samoa Commu-nity College (ASCC) student Ms. Quendolyn Gaoioi Ese-roma recently received the good news that she has been chosen by the Federal Avia-tion Administration (FAA) to participate in a 10-week paid internship program this summer.
As part of the FAA’s Minority Serving Institutions intern program, Ms. Eseroma will travel to Washington, D.C. to gain study-related work experience at an FAA facility from early June to mid-August.
The daughter of Rev. Eliu Thomas Eseroma and Lagituaiva Agnes Eseroma, Quendolyn was raised by her grandparents, the late Rev. Fiamaua Perofeta and Malia Tago Perofeta. She currently resides in Nu’uuli. Ms. Eseroma attended Alataua Lua Elementary and gradu-ated from Kanana Fou High School as Class Salutatorian in 2016. A Business Man-agement major at ASCC, she learned of the FAA internship opportunity through Math instructors Mr. Tumufa’i Leiato and Mr. Anthony
Felise. “Through this intern-ship, I hope to enhance my
personal development while gaining experience and pro-
fessional skills,” said Ms. Eseroma.
The FAA Minority Serving Institutions intern program enables college students to supplement their academic coursework with firsthand experience working in aviation and aerospace facilities nationwide where FAA programs have cooper-ative arrangements or memo-randa of understanding.
Students selected for the internship work in areas including aviation research, flight standards and opera-tions, computer science, engineering, finance, busi-ness, legal and other aviation and transportation activities. Based on the interns’ career interests, skills, knowledge and abilities, they are placed by the FAA in its Headquar-ters Regional Offices and/or other regional centers.
The FAA created the Minority Serving Institu-tions intern program for stu-dents from underrepresented groups who are pursuing studies in the aerospace, engineering and computer
science fields. By helping these students gain work experience in these areas, the FAA fulfills its goal of ulti-mately ensuring a competi-tive and diverse workforce. The program runs for 10 weeks during the summer, and for 15 weeks during the fall and spring.
Ms. Eseroma, who will depart the Territory in early June for Washington, D.C., said she very much looks forward to the internship. While she has yet to commit to a particular career path, she acknowledged that the internship could have an influence on the direction her future takes.
“I was told to keep my options open,” reflected Ms. Eseroma, “although for now I am still going to focus on becoming a busi-nesswoman.” The FAA will cover the majority of costs associated with her partici-pation in the summer intern-ship, while ASCC will con-tribute towards her room and board during her stay in Washington, D.C.
ASCC Student selected for Summer Internship with
Federal Aviation Administration
ASCC student Ms. Quendolyn Eseroma (right), seen here with her mother Mrs. Lagituaiva Agnes Eseroma, has been selected for a 10-week internship with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) this summer. [Photo: J. Kneubuhl]
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by Samoa News staffThe three-day 2017 Carib-
bean Regional Seminar by the United Nation Special Com-mittee on Decolonization was held this week in the Caribbean nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
ASG’s Office of Political Status, Constitution and Federal Relations executive director Tapa’au Dr. Daniel Aga pre-sented American Samoa’s per-spective at the seminar. Details of Tapa’au’s presentation should be available soon.
The seminar’s theme is “Implementation of the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism: the future for decolonization in the Non-Self-Governing Territo-ries”, according to a statement a UN statement last week.
American Samoa is consid-ered by the UN as one of the world’s non-self-governing territories. The annual regional seminar is rotated between the Caribbean and the Pacific.
For this year’s seminar, it took into consideration recent developments in the Caribbean, Pacific and elsewhere. There-fore, the seminar reviewed the situation with respect to the Non-Self-Governing Ter-ritories, including the issue of support from various enti-ties with in the United Nations system and other organizations, according to the Decolonization committee, which will present the Seminar’s conclusions and recommendations at its June substantive session, and sub-
sequently transmit them to the General Assembly.
Tapa’au and his staff have been holding outreach pro-grams for high schools since early this year explaining American Samoa’s political status. Last month was a stu-dent forum for all public and private high schools.
The executive director was
also called before the Senate and House to answer ques-tions posed by lawmakers. Perhaps one of the biggest issue Tapa’au’s office has been trying to get people to fully understand, as it was also raised by lawmakers, deals with American Samoa’s constitution and its political status with the United States.
“The Constitution is an internal document to Amer-ican Samoa, while the political status is an ‘external’ matter dealing with the territory’s rela-tionship,” he explained during last month’s House committee hearing.
“American Samoa’s Consti-tution can be amended but not the political status. If amend-
ments to the constitution are approved by voters and the US Congress — which has the final decision — then changes will be made, while American Samoa’s political status as an ‘unorganized, unincorporated’ territory remains,” he said.
American Samoa’s working papers released in March this year by the UN Secretariat “strongly urged the adminis-tering power [the United States] to refrain from undertaking any kind of illicit, harmful and unproductive activities, including the use of the Terri-tory as a tax haven, that are not aligned with the interest of the people of the Territory.”
The General Assembly requests that American Samoa and the administering power take all measures necessary to protect and conserve the envi-ronment of the territory against any degradation, and once again requested the specialized agencies concerned to monitor environmental conditions in the Territory and to provide assis-tance to the territory, consistent with their prevailing rules of procedure.
American Samoa’s presen-tation to the UN committee two years ago had the governor saying that the territory should remain on the list of non-self-governing territories, under the purview of the Special Com-mittee, until such time as its people have exercised their right to self-determination.
ASG Office of Political Status presents at annual UN decolonization seminar
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ASG’s Office of Political Status, Constitution and Federal Relations executive director Tapa’au Dr. Daniel Aga (second from left) pictured with top officials representing China, Russia, Guyana and Chile sitting on the board of the United Nation Special Committee on Decolonization, at this week’s 2017 Caribbean Regional Seminar hosted by St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Not pictured in the group photo is the chairman, Rafael Carreno of Venezuela, as he was attending this week’s emergency meeting with the UN Security Council meeting in New York. [photo: UN]
“She came up to me and said ‘Chef! You don’t know me but I have to work with you!’ explained Mr Oliver,
“It turned out she was at cooking school here so she graduated and came right to us. The flavours of Vanuatu are almost unknown outside of Vanuatu, so she’s bringing something very special to our repertoire.”
The Kai Pasifika Restaurant also aims to boost trade from businesses across the region, using products which Mr Oliver says helps to make their menu authentic.
Featured ingredients include virgin coconut oil, koko and taro from Samoan farmers in part-nership with Women in Busi-ness Development in Samoa as well as line-caught Wahoo fish and tamarind chutney from Fiji.
(Source: RNZI)PACIFIC PEOPLE TO
MAKE UP ONE IN TEN NZERS BY 2038
Statistics New Zealand fig-ures released today shows one in ten people in the country will be of Pacific descent in 20 years time. The Pacific group will rise from 8 percent of the population in 2013 to 10 percent by 2038.
The broad Asian group will jump from 12 percent to 22 per-cent. Maori will grow from 16 percent to 18 percent.
Due to lower birth rates the ‘European or other’ group will drop from 75 percent to 66 percent.
Modeling of smaller ethnic groups indicates the Chinese and Indian share of the popu-lation, about 4.5 percent and 4 percent respectively, will double.
Overall New Zealand’s pop-ulation is predicted to grow by about 1 million by 2038.
Statistics New Zealand said the ethnic shares add up to more than 100 percent because people can identify with mul-tiple ethnicities.
(Source: RNZI)AMATA ANNOUNCES
$3 MILLION GRANT FOR AS DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTHWashington, DC —
Wednesday, May 17, 2017 — Congresswoman Aumua Amata, was pleased to announce the awarding of a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) sup-plemental grant in the amount of $3,031,114 to the American Samoa Department of Health, for the Pacific Basin Health Center Cluster program.
“These funds are a con-tinuation of the grant alloca-tion for the local health care centers in American Samoa,” stated Amata. “The people of American Samoa rely heavily upon the health centers, and I want to thank the officials at HRSA for recognizing the need and awarding this important funding.”
Health centers are commu-nity-based and patient-directed organizations that deliver com-prehensive, culturally com-petent, high-quality primary
health care services. They also often integrate
access to pharmacy, mental health, substance abuse, and oral health services in areas where economic, geographic, or cultural barriers limit access to affordable health care services.
Health centers deliver care to the Nation’s most vulner-able individuals and families, including people experiencing homelessness, agricultural workers, and the Nation’s veterans.
“I want to once again thank HRSA officials for these funds, as well as Project Director Man-hart Alo and his team for their hard work in obtaining this important funding for American Samoa,” the Congresswoman concluded.
cations and Information Tech-nology (M.C.I.T.), Afamasaga Rico Tupa’i, has expressed disappointment about questions raised by the media in relation to the Tui Samoa Cable and American Samoa.
He has asked that the media refrain from seeking informa-tion on the Tui Samoa Cable, as sensitive negotiations are ongoing.
“Please be patient,” he said. “Stop asking me questions about the commercial part of the deals. Otherwise, when they fall through, we will go back to square one.”
Speaking during the Chamber of Commerce’s monthly meeting, the Minister blasted the Samoa Observer over a front-page story on Tuesday titled “ Cable Divides Samoas.” The story highlighted concerns by the American Samoa Governor, Lolo Mata-lasi Moliga, about the Cable and how it was presented to them.
“As you saw my very ugly face on the front page of Samoa Observer, we are talking to American Samoa,” he said. “I’m very mindful the media is here and they’ve been asking me questions all weekend. Unfor-tunately, you have to respect, when you sign an N.D.A. (non-disclosure agreement), with your partners, you can’t dis-close commercial plans.”
The Minister said Samoa has a lot to lose if these deals fall through.
“If we disclose the commer-cial parts of these deals, there’s a very big risk that these discus-sions can fall out and then we’re back to square one.
“All of these discussions are ongoing at the moment and moving very fast.
“The Samoa Submarine Cable Company and govern-ment are working hand in hand and we are operating in a very small window of opportunity, a very tiny window of oppor-tunity that we are jumping in at the moment.”
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[Source: Samoa Observer]GOVT. DROPS VIRGIN
The joint venture between Samoa and Virgin Australia is heading for a divorce. In a little over six months from now on December 5, 2017, Virgin Samoa, the airline formed as a result of the joint venture, will cease to exist.
This was confirmed in a letter from Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi to the Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Australia Pty Ltd, John Borghetti.
Dated May 12, 2017, the Samoa Observer obtained a copy of the letter, which in part says “the Cabinet has decided that the current arrangements of the JV, is no longer the Direction that Government and ultimately Samoa should take at this time.”
As for the logistics and timeline, the Prime Minister said Cab-inet has given the Airline until the end of the year.
“During that period – the terms, conditions and legal obliga-tions of government (and all parties) under the current Share-holders Agreement for the JV we hold to be active and they remain intact,” the PM wrote.
The government’s decision not to renew the joint venture doesn’t surprise members of the industry. It is public knowledge that Prime Minister Tuilaepa’s government has been unhappy with the airline’s performance for some time now. Concerns have been raised since Virgin Australia went into partnership with Air New Zealand. Both Airlines have repeatedly downplayed the concerns. But this has done little to allay fears about alleged col-lusion on airfares and other issues.
However, ultimately it comes down to the joint venture not bringing in enough money, according to the Observer story, which pointed to Prime Minister Tuilaepa criticizing a dividend payment of $5.7million by Virgin Samoa to the government, saying it wasn’t enough, last year. “It’s been two years and it’s been a while since the last dividend,” he said.
Minister of Works, Transport and Infrastructure (M.W.T.I), Papali’i Niko Lee Hang, was also asked for a comment last year, and he said, “There is a great need to have our own airline. The main problem we now have with our joint venture is the money coming in. That’s why we are now looking at getting our own airline.” [Source: Samoa Observer]
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AMERICAN SAMOA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT “PESTICIDE APPLICATOR TRAINING”
ASCC Land Grant Program will be conducting a Pesticide Applicator Safety training for those who handle farm chemicals. If you are using farm pesticides, or you are planning to use chemicals in the near future, this is a good opportunity for you to attend this important training. The training schedule is as follows:
Date: May 22 - 26, 2017Time: 12:00 noon - 4:00 p.m.Place: ASCC Land Grant Training Room
Registration is FREE. To confirm your participation for this training, please call Joyce or Helen at 699-1575/2019.Thank You.
FAAALIGA FA’ALAUA’ITELE “A’oa’oga mo i lātou o lo’o fa’aaogāina vailā ’au o’ona”
‘O le a fa ia se a ’oa ’oga mo i la tou o lo o fa ’aaogā va i lā ’au o ’ona i fa ’a toaga. A fa i o lo ’o ‘ē fa ’aaogā va i lā ’au o ’ona , po o ’ē faamoemoe fo ’ i e te fa ’aaogā i se ta im i o i l uma, o lou avanoa le le i lene i e te ‘aua i a i i l ene i a ’oa ’oga tāua . ‘O ta im i la ne i mo lene i vasega:
Aso: Me 22 - 26, 2017Taimi: 12:00-4:00ileafiafiNofoaga e fai ai: Potu mo A’oa’oga, a le Vaega o Laufanua ma Atina’e a
le Kolisi Tu’u Faatasi ma Alaalafaga a Amerika Samoa
‘E lea i se to tog i o le res i ta la . A fa i e te f ia ‘auai i lenei a ’oa ’oga, fa ’amolemole ia fa ’a feso’ota ’ i mai Joyce po o Helen i le te le fon i 699-1575/2019.
Fa’afetai.
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The LBJ Medical Center’s Dental School Team is conducting their annual visits to all local schools, to ensure that the little ones are in tiptop shape, as far as oral health. Yesterday, youngsters at Manumalo Academy received much needed fill-ings and fissure sealant, thanks to Dr. Noreen Takunala and her team of dental assistants: Perelini Telesa, Tapu Matamua, and Jordan Levu (pictured).
The school visits are an annual event, targeting young children in 2nd and 5th grade at all local public and private schools. Children in the Early Childhood Education (ECE) centers across the island, as well as various daycare centers also receive the free service.
According to Levu, the school visits are usually conducted before youngsters are sent home for summer break. He said some of the common problems they encounter
include swelling, infections, and baby teeth that don’t fall off easily.Levu told Samoa News yesterday that their outreach includes an overall check-
up of the entire school, during which all students are educated on proper oral hygiene, like how to brush their teeth correctly, and why it is important.
This year, the private schools are being served first and the public schools will follow. A permission slip for each student is sent home to parents and guardians, announcing the service. Participation is strictly voluntary but some parents say the program is ‘a blessing in disguise’ for their kids, not only because it is free of charge, but because it saves them from having to wait in the long lines at the dental clinic.
In addition, services like fissure sealant and fillings can save the child from a painful toothache and cavities. [Photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]
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by Fili SagapoluteleSamoa News Correspondent
Cases being delayed due to police investigations, police needing more training, and drug problems spreading to schools, are just some of the issues that Police Commis-sioner Le’i Sonny Thompson, discussed during a Samoa News interview early this week, as Le’i expressed sincere appre-ciation to the community for their continued support of the Department of Public Safety, as the territory’s celebrates Police Week.
There have been questions and criticisms from lawmakers and others in the community for delay in police investigation of cases. Le’i, who took over the police commissioner post in January this year, acknowl-edged the concerns and ques-tions raised on cases investi-gated by police.
However, Le’i said, “Every-thing goes through the process. People have rights. Cops not only enforce the law but also uphold people’s individual freedom and rights.”
And last month, a Senate committee held a hearing to find out more information about the drug problem in the territory that is spreading to the schools. The House raised the same drug problem spreading into schools, during its hearing in March.
“There’s a lot of drugs out there and it has spread to schools. We’re so concerned about the kids — the stu-dents,” Le’i said and warned those involved in drugs: “We will catch you, arrest you, and submit you for prosecution” to
the Attorney General’s Office.Among the cadets attending
the current 25th Police Academy are 8 officers, who will be assigned to schools and Le’i said, “Their primary job is during school hours” and after school, they will work in the regular police force.
The police force is so short staffed, that Le’i says he has pulled staff from MSCAP and
even those from Marine Patrol to help and this is the reason why the officers, who will be assigned to schools, will lend a hand after school hours and over the weekend.
“Cops should be versatile in everything that they do,” Le’i said, adding other cadets gradu-ating from the police academy will help with the police force staff shortage.
The police commissioner then revealed that DPS is working on getting federal grants, through the ASG Crim-inal Justice Planning Agency, for another police academy.
He reiterated the importance of training the police force, adding that “I will not rest until I can get all of the training done” for officers, who work long hours, to ensure the com-
munity is safe every day.“Cops must be trained so
they are prepared and ready to respond when they are in need to preserve law and order and peace in the community,” he said. “You want to feel safe and secure.
“The general public must believe in the police officers whose job is to protect and serve and we need to be out there for the public,” Le’i said. “We need to make sure that the general public knows, they feel safe on the road, they feel safe in school, they feel safe at home. And that’s in any society, not just in American Samoa.”
He expressed his sincere appreciation and thanks to the general public for its continued support of the men and women in the police force. “The com-munities have been so kind, in my view, are supportive of what we do. I just ask that the community continue with their prayers and support for our offi-cers,” he said.
Le’i, who has been seen by many in the community working on the road and in the community, reiterated that he is out there to help the cops as there is a shortage of manpower in the police force and that the community does not need to worry about him.
“I wish we had a lot of cops, then I’ld switch modes, but I can’t tell our officers to go out there, while I sit in the comfort of my office,” he said, and thanked Gov. Lolo Mata-lasi Moliga, Lt. Gov. Lemanu Palepoi Sialega Mauga and the Lolo administration for their continued support of DPS.
Police commissioner says police cases all “goes through the process”
“COPS NOT ONLY ENFORCE THE LAW BUT ALSO UPHOLD PEOPLE’S INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND RIGHTS”
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Le Kovana Itumalo fou o le Falelima i Sisifo ia Fuamatu J.V Fuamatu ma ta’ita’i o le malo i le mae’a ai o le sauniga na fa’atautoina ai o ia i le taeao ananafi i luga o le ofisa o le ali’i kovana. [ata AF]
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In Loving Memory of
SU’E SILUANO NAKISO FAILAUGAa BELOVED WIFE, MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER, GREAT GRANDMOTHER, SISTER, AUNT and FRIEND.
Sunset: May 4, 2017Sunrise: June 8, 1936
Aua ‘ua mavae atu o matou aso uma a o e to’asa mai; ‘ua uma atu o matou tausaga e pei o se manatu. O tausaga o matou olaga e fitugafulu ia tausaga; ‘ae afai e valugafulu tausaga ‘ona o le malosi.
A o lo latou malosi o i ai le tiga ma le puapuaga; aua e vave ‘ona mavae atu ia ma matou lele ‘ese.” Salamo 90: 9-10
IA MANUIA TELE LAU MALAGA MAMA!!!!
POROKALAMA MALIUAso Faraile, Me 19, 20179:30pm: Taunu’u mai i le malae va’alele ona molimoli atu lea o lona tino maliu i Olovalu (Canco Hill). Aso To’ana’i, Me 20, 201710:00am: Toe sauniga i le malumalu “Satauro O le Ola” CCCAS Malaeloa.A mae’a le sauniga ona molimoli atu lea o lona tino maliu i lona aiga i Olovalu (Canco Hill) ma tu’uina ifo i lona oliolisaga tumau.
“Amuia e ua oti, o e ‘ua oti o i le Ali’i. E amata i nei ona po o lea lava ua fetalai mai ai le Agaga. Ina ‘ia latou malolo i a latou galuega tiga; aua fo’i o a latou galuega fo’i e mulimuli ‘ia
te i latou.” Fa’aaliga 14:13
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WASHINGTON (AP) — To the White House and its supporters, the big story in Washington isn’t the inves-tigation into possible Trump campaign ties to Russia. It’s about leakers working to undermine the president.
“SABOTAGE,” read the subject line of emails sent out by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and the Republican Party, which pointed to “people within our own unelected bureaucracy that want to sabotage Presi-dent Trump and our entire America First movement.” Trump tweeted Thursday that he’s facing “the single greatest witch hunt of a poli-tician in American history!”
The language reveals much about how Trump and his backers are explaining the seemingly never-ending blitz of bad news rocking the White House. As Democrats talk about possible obstruc-
tion of justice and dream of removing Trump from office, the president and his allies reject that he bears respon-sibility for his woes. They see a plot to undermine him at every turn, as evidenced by the anonymous sources disclosing the embarrassing and damaging information — some of it classified.
All administrations have to deal with leaks, from the release of the Pentagon Papers on Vietnam policy to Edward Snowden’s dump of national security files. But the scope and frequency experienced by the Trump White House is remarkable.
In addition to an end-less stream of gossip and internal squabbling, news outlets have been privy to everything from details of draft documents to the president’s private phone conversations with foreign leaders. This week came
reports that the president had shared highly classi-fied information with Rus-sian officials during an Oval Office meeting, revealed by those with knowledge of the conversation.
“This has all the mark-ings of a coordinated, silent coup,” said Michael Caputo, who worked on Trump’s campaign and keeps in touch with administration officials.
Leaks are hardly the only cause of Trump’s prob-lems — the uproar over FBI Director James Comey’s dis-missal wasn’t the result of a leak. But Trump-friendly talking heads see something that stretches the realms of believability. Far-right radio host Alex Jones warns of a plot by “deep-state” global-ists to impeach Trump. On Fox News, Sean Hannity warned Wednesday of a “destroy Trump alliance” that is now “aligning to take down President Trump.”
But even if some claims go too far, Trump clearly does face opposition from within his own government. Running on a pledge to tear apart Washington, Trump still depends to some extent on Obama administration holdovers and career govern-ment employees, many of whom oppose him.
Clashes among Trump aides also create an envi-ronment in which staff leak
information to undercut rivals.
Ari Fleischer, who served as press secretary to President George W. Bush, blamed Trump for creating an envi-ronment that promotes leaks, saying that starts at the top.
“I do think there is a serious problem with leakers inside the administration and holdovers who can’t stand the president and will do any-thing they can to hurt him. Leaks are a real problem,” he said. “But Donald Trump created many of these prob-lems for himself.”
A sense of fatigue and despondence has set in as White House officials wait for new balls to drop. Again and again, they have tried to push forward with their agenda, only to see news reports dominated by near-daily leaks.
“Somebody is selectively leaking information and facts. And there’s a reason it’s selective,” said White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who once demanded that staffers turn over their cell phones so he could inspect them for unauthor-ized communication. “It’s because they’re trying to create ... at least it appears as though somebody is trying to create a narrative or a problem.”
“It’s extremely troubling,” he said.
The focus on leaks has also been embraced by Republicans in Congress, who have urged reporters to pay more attention to the source of their stories — a familiar strategy to deflect the conversation away from bad news.
In many cases, Trump aides have leaked gossip to cement their public standings or tried to communicate with the president through news stories, which he devours.
Erick Erickson, a con-servative activist who has been critical of the presi-dent, recently wrote that because the notoriously thin-skinned president doesn’t like internal criticism, some aides “are left with no other option but to go to the media, leak the story, and hope that the intense blowback gives the president a swift kick in the butt.”
White House officials have not said whether there is a leak investigation going on. But they’re not the first to rail against leaks and leakers — or try to root them out.
In 2013, for instance, the Obama Justice Depart-ment secretly obtained two months of phone records for reporters and editors of The Associated Press, which appeared to be linked to a criminal investigation into leaks about a foiled terrorist plot to bomb an airliner.
To Trump supporters,
the real story is about leaks,
sabotage
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 18, 2017, during his meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump sits down for dinner in Saudi Arabia, caterers have ensured that his favorite meal — steak with a side of ketchup — will be offered alongside the traditional local cuisine.
At NATO and the Group of 7 summits, foreign delegations have gotten word that the new U.S. president prefers short presentations and lots of visual aids. And at all of Trump’s five stops on his first overseas trip, his team has spent weeks trying to build daily downtime into his otherwise jam-packed schedule.
It’s all part of a worldwide effort to accommodate Amer-ica’s homebody president on a voyage with increasingly raised stakes given the ballooning controversy involving his cam-paign’s possible ties to Russia. For a former international busi-nessman, Trump simply doesn’t have an affinity for much international.
Even before Trump’s trip morphed from a quick jaunt to Europe into a nine-day behe-moth, White House aides were on edge about how the president would take to grueling pres-sures of foreign travel: the time zone changes, the unfamiliar hotels, the local delicacies. Two officials said they feared that a difficult trip might even lead the president to hand off future traveling duties to Vice Presi-dent Mike Pence.
Trump’s final itinerary hardly eases him into the deli-cate world of international diplomacy on foreign soil. After departing Friday on an over-night flight on Air Force One, Trump will hopscotch from Saudi Arabia to Israel to the Vatican. He’ll close his trip with a pair of summits in Brussels and Sicily, often-staid affairs that require leaders to be locked in lengthy plenary sessions.
“The chance of something going wrong — you insult the hosts, you get sick, your boss gets sick, you miscommuni-cate with your hosts, you make a scheduling error, you need to change the schedule just hours before a meeting, the motorcade get stuck in traffic, or the plane is stranded due to bad weather — is extremely high,” said Juli-anne Smith, who served as a foreign policy adviser to Vice President Joe Biden and is now a senior fellow at the Center for New American Security.
“Personally, I think they should cut it back now before they regret it,” she said of Trump’s long jaunt.
The trip marks the first time since taking office that Trump
has spent a night away from the White House at a property that doesn’t bear his name. And it’s not just the bragging rights Trump gets when he goes to his own properties: Staffers know his meal preferences and the exact temperature he likes a room set at. He’s often sur-rounded by long-time friends and acquaintances who have memberships to the commander in chief-owned retreats.
The one trip Trump took abroad as a candidate was to mark the opening of a new golf resort in Scotland. He led journalists on a roving tour of the course and said his prop-erty would benefit if Britain’s currency tanked following its decision to leave the European Union.
The stakes will be far higher as President Trump makes his debut on the international stage. He’s the first president since Jimmy Carter to not travel abroad during his first 100 days in office. And he’ll depart under a cloud of controversy, much of it of his own making, including the White House’s botched han-dling of FBI Director James Comey’s firing.
Nearly all of Trump’s senior White House officials are traveling with him. First lady Melania Trump will also be on the trip, headlining her own events on each stop.
The Slovenian-born Mrs. Trump is the more seasoned international traveler in the rela-tionship. She lived and worked as a model in Paris and Milan before moving to New York, and speaks multiple languages.
Before the couple married, they flew to Slovenia so the New York real estate mogul could meet his bride-to-be’s family. The day trip marked the only time Trump has set foot in his wife’s home country.
“At least I can say that I went,” Trump told The New York Times last year.
Foreign travel has never been high on Trump’s list of priori-ties. During his first marriage, he usually stayed behind when wife Ivana took his children for visits to her home country, the former Czechoslovakia. He’s made the occasional stops to meet business partners abroad, but most of his travel has been to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and other U.S. properties.
Trump’s hosts on his upcoming trip are well-aware of his aversion to travel and are trying to make accommodations to keep him happy.
In Saudi Arabia, people with knowledge of the planning for
Trump’s trip say the caterers are planning to offer the president steak and ketchup alongside the lamb and hefty portions of rice on the menu. All the meat will
have been butchered in a Sha-riah-compliant halal manner as per Islamic custom.
The people with knowledge of the Saudis’ planning insisted
on anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose the sensitive details.
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ALPINE, Utah (AP) — As Chairman of the House Gov-ernmental Oversight Com-mittee, Rep. Jason Chaffetz was a determined investigator of the Obama administration and of Hillary Clinton’s use of a pri-vate email server while she was Secretary of State.
But once Donald Trump took office, he became some-what more muted.
That looked like it was changing this week when reports emerged that former FBI director James Comey had taken notes after Trump privately asked him to end a probe into his former National Security Adviser before firing Comey.
Chaffetz immediately tweeted that he wanted to see the memo when news broke Tuesday night. On Wednesday his committee subpoenaed FBI records, sparking speculation of a showdown with the White House. On Thursday, Chaffetz announced he was stepping down from Congress, effective June 30.
The Utah Republican had said he intended to leave some-time during this term, but the abrupt departure is yet another step in the on-again, off-again dance between GOP-led con-gressional oversight committees and the Republican president.
During a Thursday afternoon news conference at his home south of Salt Lake City, Chaf-fetz said he was sure his other GOP colleagues on the over-sight committee would keep the probe going. It was some-thing that would take months or years, he added.
“There are lots of good people who care about these issues and are well-suited to carry out these investigations,” Chaffetz said.
Chaffetz is the second House Republican who is stepping away from a Trump investiga-tion. Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intel-ligence Agency, had to recuse himself from that investigation after a bizarre incident where he emerged from the White House and seemed to suggest he had evidence backing up Trump’s groundless contention that he had been surveilled by the Obama administration. Repub-lican Rep. K. Michael Conaway is now overseeing that probe.
One possible replacement for Chaffetz on the Over-sight Committee is Rep. Trey Gowdy, the former South Caro-lina prosecutor who chaired the special Benghazi investigative committee and a close Chaf-fetz friend. On Thursday, the Republican Gowdy released a
statement saying he was talking to other members about the chairmanship.
Trump has long complicated Chaffetz’s life. The five-term congressman rescinded his endorsement of Trump last year after recordings surfaced of the reality show star bragging about groping women, only to hastily re-endorse Trump shortly before the FBI announced it was reviving its investigation into Clinton’s emails.
After Trump won the elec-tion, Chaffetz became a light-ning rod for criticism that Republicans weren’t aggres-sively policing Trump.
Liberals said that he did not go after the incoming admin-istration with nearly the vigor used against the prior Demo-cratic administration. Con-stituents booed him at a rau-cous February town hall, and a novice Democratic candidate raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in online donations when she announced her long-shot challenge to him weeks later.
Last month, Chaffetz stunned the political world by saying he would leave Congress before his current term ends in 2018. But he did not provide a date for his departure until Thursday.
Chaffetz said he hoped to preside over one final hearing on a botched Obama adminis-tration “gun-walking” program, in which federal authorities let gun-runners purchase firearms in hopes of disrupting gun smuggling rings.
The former kicker for the Mormon-owned Brigham Young University football team was first elected to the U.S. House of Representa-tives in 2008. He strolled to four easy re-elections in his heavily Republican district that stretches from towns in the Wasatch Mountains to the Salt Lake suburbs and Provo, the home of BYU. Chaffetz became chairman of the House Over-sight Committee in 2015.
He has not ruled out running for another office, such as Utah governor.
Prior to his time in office, he worked in communications for more than a decade and served as campaign manager for former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr.
“I kind of had a little bit of a midlife crisis. I turned 50, I’m sleeping on a cot,” Chaffetz said of his life as a congressman in Washington. “The over-whelming driving force is the idea that I just love my family. And a lot of people will never ever believe that, but that is the truth.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence has tiptoed gingerly through the chaos engulfing the White House — offering loyalty to his boss, while trying to avoid the spreading stain of scandal.
It hasn’t been easy, and it’s getting harder by the day.
While some conservatives view Pence as a calming force in an administration mired in turmoil, Democrats are eager to tie him to President Donald Trump’s vulnerabilities. The appointment of a special
counsel to probe ties between Russia and Trump’s campaign and associates has turned up the heat for everyone in Trump’s orbit.
And there are fresh ques-tions about how much Pence knew as head of Trump’s tran-sition team. The vice presi-dent was under new scrutiny Thursday after reports that former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn in January alerted the transition team about a Justice Department inquiry into whether he was secretly
working as a foreign lobbyist for Turkish interests. The White House has said Flynn was fired in February for lying to Pence about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador.
An administration official said Thursday that Pence knew nothing about Flynn’s activities at the time and referred to the vice president’s comments in a Fox News interview in March in which Pence said, “Hearing that story today was the first I heard of it.” Democrats said that strained credibility.
“Pence was the head of the transition team that tapped Flynn for national security adviser. That is not good,” said Stephanie Schriock, the presi-dent of EMILY’s List, a Demo-cratic group that backs female candidates who support abor-tion rights.
Unlike his boss, who has raged in tweets and speeches, Pence has been careful in his comments about the multiple probes into the campaign’s con-tacts with Russia.
In the wake of Trump’s abrupt dismissal of FBI Director James Comey, Pence has been circumspect. He has not publicly commented on the naming of former FBI Director Robert Mueller to serve as the special counsel investigating the allegations, and he only obliquely referred to the tumult surrounding the administration in a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Thursday.
“Whatever Washington, D.C., may be focused on at any given time, rest assured, Presi-dent Donald Trump will never stop fighting for the issues that matter most to the American people,” he said.
But the Comey episode has revived questions about
whether Pence is out of the loop at the White House, or less than truthful in his public statements.
When Trump ousted Comey, administration officials said the president only did so after receiving a memo from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosen-stein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Pence reiterated those claims to reporters, saying again and again that the decision came only after Trump decided to “accept” and “support” Rosen-stein’s recommendations.
Two days later, Trump said in an interview with NBC News that he was planning to fire Comey anyway and had con-sidered it since the start of his administration.
Matt Schlapp, a veteran Republican consultant who leads the American Conserva-tive Union, said Trump’s candor and authenticity, attributes that helped get him elected, make it more difficult for Pence and other members of his team to stay in step.
“There are going to be these moments that, for the vice president and for everybody in the White House staff and the Trump orbit, when they explain something one way but that’s not where the president’s head is on that. It will always be awkward,” Schlapp said. “My guess is this was an honest mistake and there is still deep respect between the president and the vice president.”
Asked how Pence advised the president on Comey, an administration official would not detail the conversations between the pair but stressed that the vice president sup-ported the decision to fire the FBI head.
The official — who was
not authorized to speak about Pence’s activities publicly, and agreed to be interviewed only on condition of anonymity — also said Pence was not part of the president’s meeting last week with Russian diplomats, noting that he was on Capitol Hill for Senate business.
The Comey firing represents a second rough patch for Pence. At the start of the administra-tion, the vice president pub-licly defended Flynn against allegations that he had dis-cussed sanctions with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. before Trump’s inauguration. Flynn had denied those conversations to Pence and other top officials; he was forced out after it was discovered that he had misled the vice president.
Throughout the upheavals, Pence has maintained political life as usual. He has carved out a role as the administration’s top lobbyist on Capitol Hill and was instrumental in helping Republicans pass a health care plan in the House. While Trump is away on his first foreign trip, Pence will be addressing gradu-ates at a Pennsylvania Chris-tian college and at Notre Dame while working on budget and policy issues in Washington.
And political life never strays far from money. Pence this week registered a fund-raising committee that enables him to cultivate donors outside of the president’s mostly low-dollar money network. The vice president is a far more tradi-tional politician when it comes to raising money, and this group — called the Great America Committee — can collect up to $5,000 per donor and parcel out funds to candidates supportive of White House policies.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — If President Donald Trump was hoping to head out on his first big foreign trip with turmoil calmed at home, he’s going to have a disappointing Air Force One departure on Friday.
Combative and complaining, Trump fell short Thursday in trying to resolve investiga-tions into his campaign and his first four months in office. He’s departing having fervently denied that his campaign had collaborated with Russia or that he’d tried to kill an FBI probe of the issue — and claiming to be the most hounded president in history. Even his enemies, Trump declared, recognize his innocence.
Asked point-blank if he’d done anything that might merit prosecution or even impeach-ment, Trump said no — and then added of the lingering alle-gations and questions: “I think it’s totally ridiculous. Every-body thinks so.”
Not quite everybody.While Trump tweeted and
voiced his indignation at the White House, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed a special counsel to lead an independent fed-eral Trump-Russia investiga-tion, briefed the entire Senate in private. By several sena-tors’ accounts, he contradicted Trump’s statements that Rosen-stein’s written criticism of FBI Director James Comey had been a factor in Comey’s recent firing by the president.
Rosenstein was returning to the Capitol on Friday for another closed-door session, this time with all members of the House.
Trump is leaving Friday for his first foreign trip, to the Mideast and beyond, and aides had hoped the disarray at home would have been calmed if not resolved by take-off time. Republicans on Capitol Hill hoped the same, reasoning that the appointment of a special counsel could free them to work on a major tax overhaul — and
other matters — without con-stant distractions.
Trump said he was about to name a replacement for Comey, another effort to settle the waters. Former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman was seen as the front-runner. But calmness seemed far off.
Trump clearly knew what he wanted to say as he took a few questions at a news briefing with visiting Colombian Presi-dent Juan Manuel Santos.
Did he urge Comey at a February meeting to drop his probe of the Russia connections of Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn?
“No. No. Next question.”Did he collude with Russia
in his campaign to defeat Dem-ocrat Hillary Clinton?
“Everybody, even my ene-mies, have said there is no col-lusion,” he replied. Another answer on that subject seemed both more specific and perhaps ambiguous. “There is no collu-sion between certainly myself and my campaign — but I can only speak for myself — and the Russians. Zero.”
“The entire thing has been a witch hunt,” he declared, echoing one of the tweets he’d sent out just after dawn: “This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American his-tory!” He said he respected the special counsel appointment but also said it “hurts our country terribly.” Across town, Rosen-stein was briefing the Senate about his decision to appoint former FBI Director Robert Mueller to lead the independent Trump-Russia probe.
Senators said that Rosen-stein steered clear of specifics while making clear that Mueller has wide latitude to pursue the investigation wherever it leads, potentially including criminal charges. Despite the president’s furious reaction, some fellow Republicans welcomed Muel-ler’s appointment and expressed hopes it would restore some composure to a capital plunged in chaos. “We’ll get rid of the
smoke and see where the actual issues lie,” said Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. “I do think that the spe-cial prosecutor provides a sense of calm and confidence perhaps for the American people, which is incredibly important.”
One striking piece of news emerged from Rosenstein’s briefing: He told senators that he had already known Comey was getting fired even as he wrote the memo that Trump cited as a significant justifi-cation for the FBI director’s dismissal. Trump himself had already contradicted that expla-nation, telling interviewers ear-lier that he had already decided to dismiss Comey.
He offered new justifications for his decision Thursday, even while referring to the Rosen-stein memo as “a very, very strong recommendation.”
Trump referred to Comey’s testimony at a recent Capitol Hill hearing, after which the Justice Department ended up having to amend part of his testimony regarding last year’s probe of Hillary Clinton’s email practices. “That was a poor, poor performance,” Trump said. “And then on top of that, after the Wednesday perfor-mance by Director Comey, you had a person come and have to readjust the record, which many people have never seen before, because there were misstatements made.” The Jus-tice Department says Mueller, the new special counsel, has been given sweeping power to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential cam-paign, including potential links between Moscow and Trump associates.
Despite initially opposing appointment of an indepen-dent counsel, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that the development “helps assure people and the Justice Department that they’re going to go do their jobs inde-pendently and thoroughly, which is what we’ve called for all along.”
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 18, 2017.
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BEIJING (AP) — Commer-cial development of the globe’s huge reserves of a frozen fossil fuel known as “combustible ice” has moved closer to reality after Japan and China successfully extracted the material from the seafloor off their coastlines.
But experts said Friday that large-scale production remains many years away — and if not done properly could flood the atmosphere with climate-changing greenhouse gases.
Combustible ice is a frozen mixture of water and concen-
trated natural gas. Technically known as methane hydrate, it can be lit on fire in its frozen state and is believed to com-prise one of the world’s most abundant fossil fuels.
The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that the fuel was successfully mined from beneath the South China Sea on Thursday. Chinese Min-ister of Land and Resources Jiang Daming declared the event a breakthrough moment heralding a potential “global energy revolution.”
A drilling crew in Japan reported a similar successful operation two weeks earlier, on May 4 along the Shima Peninsula.
For Japan, methane hydrate offers the chance to reduce its heavy reliance of imported fuels. In China, it could serve as a cleaner substitute for coal-burning power plants and steel factories that have polluted much of the country with lung-damaging smog.
Methane hydrate has been found beneath seafloors and buried inside Arctic permafrost and beneath Antarctic ice.
Estimates of worldwide reserves range from 280 tril-lion cubic meters (10,000 tril-lion cubic feet) up to 2,800 trillion cubic meters (100,000 trillion cubic feet), according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. By comparison, total worldwide production of natural gas was 3.5 billion cubic meters (124 billion cubic feet) in 2015, the most recent year available.
That means methane hydrate reserves could meet global gas demands for 80 to 800 years at current consumption rates.
Yet efforts to successfully extract the fuel at a profit have eluded private and state-owned energy companies for decades. That’s in part because of the high cost of extraction tech-niques, which involve large amounts of water and power to flood methane hydrate reserves so the fuel can be released and brought to the surface.
There are also environmental concerns, said David Sandalow, a former senior official with the U.S. State Department now at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.
China, Japan extract combustible ice from seafloor
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BEIJING (AP) — A pair of Chinese fighter jets conducted an “unprofessional” intercept of an American radiation-sniffing surveillance plane over the East China Sea, the U.S. Air Force said Friday, the latest in a series of such incidents that have raised U.S. concerns in an already tense region.
On Wednesday, the two Chi-nese SU-30 jets approached a WC-135 Constant Phoenix air-craft conducting a routine mis-sion in international airspace in accordance with international law, Pacific Air Forces spokes-woman Lt. Col. Lori Hodge said in a statement.
The WC-135 crew charac-terized the intercept as unpro-fessional “due to the maneuvers by the Chinese pilot, as well as the speeds and proximity of both aircraft,” Hodge said.
She declined to provide fur-ther details and said the issue would be addressed with China through “appropriate diplo-matic and military channels.”
“We would rather discuss it privately with China,” Hodge said in an email to The Associ-ated Press. “This will allow us to continue building confidence with our Chinese counterparts on expected maneuvering to avoid mishaps.”
China declared an air defense identification zone over a large section of the East China Sea in 2013, a move the U.S. called illegitimate and has refused to recognize.
China has demanded foreign aircraft operating within the zone declare their intentions and follow Chinese instruc-tions. Hoge declined to say whether Wednesday’s incident was within the self-declared Chinese zone.
“U.S. military aircraft rou-tinely transit international air-space throughout the Pacific, including the East China Sea,” she said. “This flight was no exception.”
Unexpected and unsafe intercepts involving U.S. and Chinese military aircraft have occurred occasionally over the South China Sea, which China claims virtually in its entirety. Although China says it respects freedom of navigation in the strategically vital area, it objects to U.S. military activi-ties, especially the collection of signals intelligence by U.S. craft operating near the coast of its southern island province of Hainan, home to several mili-tary installations.
In recent years, the sides have signed a pair of agree-ments aimed at preventing such encounters from sparking an international crisis, as hap-pened in April 2001 when a Chinese jet fighter collided with a U.S. surveillance plane over the South China Sea, leading to the death of the Chinese pilot and China’s detention of the 24 U.S. crew members for 10 days.
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Tu’uaia se ali’i i lona osofaia o faleoloa e 9 i le atunu’uUa tofu atu nei i luma Tu’uaia se ali’i i lona osofaia o faleoloa e 9 i le atunu’u
tusia Ausage FausiaO le tagi fou lea ua toe faila
e le malo o Amerika Samoa fa’asaga i le ali’i talavou o David Fo’a, ua atagia mai ai le tu’uaia o ia i lona osofaia lea o
ni faleoloa se 9 i le itu i Sisifo o le atunu’u, e aofia ai ma le ave fa’agaoi o meatotino mai totonu o faleoloa eseese uma nei.
E ui ua silia i le 6 masina o taofia pea Fo’a i totonu o le toese i le mae’a ai lea ona faila e le malo o le latou ulua’i tagi fa’asaga ia te ia i le tausaga na te’a nei, o le aso Faraile na te’a nei na toe faila ai e le malo la latou tagi fou fa’asaga ia Fo’a, i le mae’a ai lea ona maua e Leoleo o isi fa’amatalaga fou e fa’atatau i mataupu eseese o lo o tu’uaia ai o ia.
O le tagi fou lea na fa’atoa faila i le vaiaso na te’a nei fa’asaga i le ali’i o lo o molia, na afua mai lea ina ua teena e le fa’amasinoga maualuga se maliliega aufa’atasi na sainia e Fo’a ma le malo, lea na manatu ai le malo e tali ioe le ua molia i le moliaga o le talepe fale ma le gaoi, ae solofua ai isi moliaga o lo o totoe ai i le tagi sa latou fa’aulu.
Peita’i o le tagi fou lea ua fa’aulu fa’asaga ia Fo’a, o lo o tu’uaia ai o ia i moliaga e 9 o le talepe fale i le tulaga muamua, 5 moliaga o le gaoi, fa’apea ai ma moliaga e 2 o le fa’aleaga meatotino i le tulaga 3.
O se tasi o faleoloa na osofa’i e le ua molia e pei ona taua i fa’amaumauga a le fa’amasinoga, o lo o tu’uaia ai o ia i lona talepe o le fa’amalama i se taimi o le po, ma ia ulufale fa’amalosi ai i totonu ma le fa’amoemoe na te fa’atinoina ai le solitulafono o le gaoi.
Tulaueleele va’alele su’esu’e USCoast Guard “Hercules C130” ma Ripoti
O se va’aiga i le taimi na tulaueleele ai le va’alele a le US Coast Guard sau sa’o lava i lalo le nate siakia le tulaga o le kesi, va’aia lana matafaioi ao le’i faia se talanoaga ma le ‘au fa’asalalau. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
O se va’aiga i le taimi na tulaueleele ai le va’alele a le US Coast Guard sau sa’o lava i lalo le nate siakia le tulaga o le kesi, va’aia lana matafaioi ao le’i faia se talanoaga ma le ‘au fa’asalalau.
[ata: Leua Aiono Frost] (Faaauau itulau 28)
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tusia Ausage FausiaO le tagi fou lea ua toe faila
e le malo o Amerika Samoa fa’asaga i le ali’i talavou o David Fo’a, ua atagia mai ai le tu’uaia o ia i lona osofaia lea o ni faleoloa se 9 i le itu i Sisifo o le atunu’u, e aofia ai ma le ave fa’agaoi o meatotino mai totonu o faleoloa eseese uma nei.
E ui ua silia i le 6 masina o taofia pea Fo’a i totonu o le toese i le mae’a ai lea ona faila e le malo o le latou ulua’i tagi fa’asaga ia te ia i le tausaga na te’a nei, o le aso Faraile na te’a nei na toe faila ai e le malo la latou tagi fou fa’asaga ia Fo’a, i le mae’a ai lea ona maua e Leoleo o isi fa’amatalaga fou e fa’atatau i mataupu eseese o lo o tu’uaia ai o ia.
O le tagi fou lea na fa’atoa faila i le vaiaso na te’a nei fa’asaga i le ali’i o lo o molia, na afua mai lea ina ua teena e le fa’amasinoga maualuga se maliliega aufa’atasi na sainia e Fo’a ma le malo, lea na manatu ai le malo e tali ioe le ua molia i le moliaga o le talepe fale ma le gaoi, ae solofua ai isi moliaga o lo o totoe ai i le tagi sa latou fa’aulu.
Peita’i o le tagi fou lea ua fa’aulu fa’asaga ia Fo’a, o lo o tu’uaia ai o ia i moliaga e 9 o le talepe fale i le tulaga muamua, 5 moliaga o le gaoi, fa’apea ai ma moliaga e 2 o le fa’aleaga meatotino i le tulaga 3.
O se tasi o faleoloa na osofa’i e le ua molia e pei
ona taua i fa’amaumauga a le fa’amasinoga, o lo o tu’uaia ai o ia i lona talepe o le fa’amalama i se taimi o le po, ma ia ulufale fa’amalosi ai i totonu ma le fa’amoemoe na te fa’atinoina ai le solitulafono o le gaoi.
A o i ai o ia i totonu o le
faleoloa lea, sa ia gaoiina ai ni oloa e silia i le $100 lo latou tau pe a fa’atupeina, atoa ai ma se tinoitupe e tusa ma le $800 sa i totonu o se fagu sa i lalo o le fata i totonu o le faleoloa.
O ni isi o oloa na gaoia mai e Fo’a i le faleoloa lea, sa ia alu
ma foa’i i se tasi o ana uo, o ia lea na ia fa’asoaina i Leoleo fa’amatalaga e fa’atatau i oloa na avatu e Fo’a ia te ia, ma mafua ai loa ona maua e Leoleo fa’amatalaga e uiga i le oso-faiga lea, ma i’u ina molia ai o ia i lenei mataupu.
O le tele o meatotino o lo o tu’uaia e le malo ia Fo’a sa ia ave fa’agaoia mai faleoloa eseese na a’afia, ua mae’a ona toe maua e Leoleo, se’i vagana ai ni isi o vaega laiti o loo tau sailia pea, ae i tulaga o le tinoitupe sa gaoia, na taua e le ua molia i Leoleo le mae’a lea ona ia fa’aaoga, ma o se isi vaega o le tupe sa latou fa’aaoga ma ana uo.
Ua tofu atu nei i luma o le fa’amasinoga maualuga le mataupu fou e pei ona tu’uaia ai e le malo ia Fo’a, ina ua ia le manatu e fa’ataunu’u lana ulua’i iloiloga lea sa fuafua e faia i luma o le fa’amasinoga fa’aitumalo.
O le masina o Iulai lea ua fa’atulaga e faia ai lana ulua’i iloiloga, o le aso fo’i lea ua fa’amoemoe e tatau ona fa’ailoa ai le tulaga sa’o o lana mataupu, i le ono faia lea o se maliliega ma le malo po o le tu’uina atu o lana mataupu e fa’ataunu’u sona fa’amasinoga autu i luma o tagatanu’u e tofia e le fa’amasinoga e iloiloina se fa’aiuga o lana mataupu.
O le masina o Novema 2018 lea ua fa’atulaga e faia ai lana fa’amasinoga autu, pe afai e le mautu sa latou maliliega ma le malo e fa’amuta ai lana mataupu.
O lo o taofia pea Fo’a i le toese i Tafuna e aunoa ma se tupe ua fa’atulaga e le fa’amasinoga e tatala ai o ia i tua.
Tu’uaia se ali’i i lona osofaia o faleoloa e 9
[l-r] House Speaker Savali Talavou Ale (middle) and his wife Beauty (far left) along with Deputy Secretary of Samoan Affairs, Malemo Tausaga (far right), waiting yesterday at the Governor’s Office Conference Room for the brief swearing in ceremony of the new Western District Governor, Fuamatu J.V. Fuamatu. [photo: AF]
FAASALALAUGAO le Suafa “ATIULAGI”
E le toe tauiloina taeao o le atunuu, aua ua tasi Samoa i le Atua. Samoa, e muamua le Atua. O Samoa fo’i e fa’avae i le Atua. Ta’alolo lava o ou mamalu ma ou paia, ou sa ma ou faiga, aua e le toe gae’e i se fetalaiga ma se saunoaga. Tulou, Tulou, Tulou Lava!A’o se fa’asilasilaga lava lenei mo suli, aiga ma gafa o le Suafa To’oto’o o le “ATIULAGI”, i le afioaga o Luma, Ta’u, Manu’a.O le a faia se tatou fonotaga i le Aso To’ona’i, Iuni 3, 2017, i le 10:00 i le taeao e tau saili ai se ua agava’a e tausia lo tatou aiga.O le a faia lava lenei fonotaga i le Maota o le Faatui ia Lefiti Atiulagi Pese, i Fogagogo, Tutuila, Amerika Samoa.Ia alofa le Atua mo se fesilafa’iga manuia i lea aso.
Sainia lenei fa’aaliga e,Suli ma Aiga Potopoto o Atiulagi
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(Photos: Terry)
A o i ai o ia i totonu o le faleoloa lea, sa ia gaoiina ai ni oloa e silia i le $100 lo latou tau pe a fa’atupeina, atoa ai ma se tinoitupe e tusa ma le $800 sa i totonu o se fagu sa i lalo o le fata i totonu o le faleoloa.
O ni isi o oloa na gaoia mai e Fo’a i le faleoloa lea, sa ia alu ma foa’i i se tasi o ana uo, o ia lea na ia fa’asoaina i Leoleo fa’amatalaga e fa’atatau i oloa na avatu e Fo’a ia te ia, ma mafua ai loa ona maua e Leoleo fa’amatalaga e uiga i le osofaiga lea, ma i’u ina molia ai o ia i lenei mataupu.
O le tele o meatotino o lo o tu’uaia e le malo ia Fo’a sa ia ave fa’agaoia mai faleoloa eseese na a’afia, ua mae’a ona toe maua e Leoleo, se’i vagana ai ni isi o vaega laiti o loo tau sailia pea, ae i tulaga o le tinoitupe sa gaoia, na taua e le ua molia i Leoleo le mae’a lea ona ia fa’aaoga, ma o se isi vaega o le tupe sa latou fa’aaoga ma ana uo.
Ua tofu atu nei i luma o le fa’amasinoga maualuga le mataupu fou e pei ona tu’uaia ai e le malo ia Fo’a, ina ua ia le manatu e fa’ataunu’u lana ulua’i iloiloga lea sa fuafua e faia i luma o le fa’amasinoga fa’aitumalo.
O le masina o Iulai lea ua fa’atulaga e faia ai lana ulua’i iloiloga, o le aso fo’i lea ua fa’amoemoe e tatau ona fa’ailoa ai le tulaga sa’o o lana mataupu, i le ono faia lea o se maliliega ma le malo po o le tu’uina atu o lana mataupu e fa’ataunu’u sona fa’amasinoga autu i luma o tagatanu’u e tofia e le fa’amasinoga e iloiloina se fa’aiuga o lana mataupu.
O le masina o Novema 2018 lea ua fa’atulaga e faia ai lana fa’amasinoga autu, pe afai e le mautu sa latou maliliega ma le malo e fa’amuta ai lana mataupu.
O lo o taofia pea Fo’a i le toese i Tafuna e aunoa ma se tupe ua fa’atulaga e le fa’amasinoga e tatala ai o ia i tua. o le fa’amasinoga maualuga le mataupu fou e pei ona tu’uaia ai e le malo ia Fo’a, ina ua ia le manatu e fa’ataunu’u lana ulua’i iloiloga lea sa fuafua e faia i luma o le fa’amasinoga fa’aitumalo.
O le masina o Iulai lea ua fa’atulaga e faia ai lana ulua’i iloiloga, o le aso fo’i lea ua fa’amoemoe e tatau ona fa’ailoa ai le tulaga sa’o o lana mataupu, i le ono faia lea o se maliliega ma le malo po o le tu’uina atu o lana mataupu e fa’ataunu’u sona fa’amasinoga autu i luma o tagatanu’u e tofia e le fa’amasinoga e iloiloina se fa’aiuga o lana mataupu.
O le masina o Novema 2018 lea ua fa’atulaga e faia ai lana fa’amasinoga autu, pe afai e le mautu sa latou maliliega ma le malo e fa’amuta ai lana mataupu.
O lo o taofia pea Fo’a i le toese i Tafuna e aunoa ma se tupe ua fa’atulaga e le fa’amasinoga e tatala ai o ia i tua.
➧ Tulaueleele va’alele …Mai itulau 26
O se vaaiga i le ali’i sa palateina lea va’alele a le US Coast Guard mo suesuega uma o le EEZ, fagotaga ae maise o lipoti o mea na va’aia i le motu o le Manu’atele. O lo ua tutu fa’atasi i la’s ma le ta’ira’i o le aufaigaluega suesue a le Coast Guard Lt. Mathew Chase. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
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tusia Ausage FausiaSAUFO’I TUSIGA
Ua tu’uina atu e le fa’amasinoga fa’aitumalo sana poloaiga e faia ai se su’esu’ega fa’asaga i le tulaga malosi ma le lelei o lo o i ai le mafaufau o se ali’i o lo o taofia i le falema’i mo i latou e a’afia i le gasegase o le mafaufau i le taimi nei, ina ia mafai ai ona iloa tonu le tulaga e tatau ona taoto ai le mataupu e pei ona tu’uaia ai o ia, pe gafatia i le malosi o lona mafaufau ona tula’i i luma o le fa’amasinoga mo le tu’uina atu o sana tali e tusa ai o tu’uaiga fa’asaga ia te ia.
E pei ona fa’aalia i fa’amaumauga a le fa’amasinoga fa’aitumalo, o le ali’i o Saufo’i Tusiga o lo o tu’uaia e le malo i moliaga mamafa e lua o le tagofia o itutinosa o se tama’ita’i fa’apea ai ma le talepe fale i le tulaga muamua.
O ia tu’uaiga na afua mai i se fa’alavelave na tula’i mai i le masina na te’a nei, lea o lo o tu’uaia ai e le malo ia
Tusiga i lona ulufale fa’amalosi i totonu o se fale o se tama’ita’i ma ia tagofia ona itutinosa.
Na fa’ailoa e le afioga i le ali’i fa’amasino ia Fiti Sunia i le Tama o Tusiga i le iloiloga sa faia i le vaiaso nei, le a’afia o lona atali’i i se gasegase matuia o le mafaufau, e moomia fo’i le fa’ainu o ana fualaau ina ia mautinoa ai o lo o tulaga lelei pea lava lona mafaufau i taimi uma.
Na fa’amanino atili e Sunia i le Tama o le ali’i ua molia, o le fa’aiuga o le su’esu’ga fa’asaga i le mafaufau o Tusiga, o le a iloa ai loa pe gafatia e ia ona tula’i mo le tu’uina atu o lana tali i le aso o lona fa’amasinoga.
O le aso 25 Me lea ua fa’atulaga e toe valaau ai le mataupu a Tusiga i luma o le fa’amasinoga, ae ua toe taofia nei o ia i le falema’i mo i latou e a’afia i le gasegase o le mafaufau i Faga’alu, ina ia mautinoa e fa’aauau pea ona tausia ma vaaia lelei
o ia e lana Foma’i.JOSEPH YANDALLO le aso Lulu na te’a nei na tula’i
ai le Tama matua ia Joseph Yandall, 87 tausaga o lona soifua i luma o le fa’amasinoga maualuga, ma ia teena ai moliaga mamafa e 3 o lo o tu’uaia ai o ia e le malo, ina ua ia manatu e aua le fa’ataunu’uina lana ulua’i iloiloga lea sa fuafua e faia i luma o le fa’amasinoga fa’aitumalo, ae tu’u sa’o atu loa lana mataupu i luma o le fa’amasinoga maua-luga e fa’agasolo ai ona taualumaga.
I le teena ai e Yandall o tu’uaiga fa’asaga ia te ia, ua fa’atulaga ai loa lana ulua’i iloiloga e faia lea i le masina fou o Iuni, o le aso fo’i lea ua fa’atulaga e le fa’amasinoga e tatau ona o o atu i ai ua mautu se tulaga tonu e tatau ona o o i ai lana mataupu.
O moliaga e pei ona tu’uaia ai e le malo le susuga a Joseph Yandall e aofia ai le moliaga pito sili ona mamafa o le
faia o uiga mataga i se teineititi e i lalo o le 12 tausaga le matua (child molesting), o le vaega A lea o solitulafono mamafa, lea e mafai ona fa’asala ai se tasi i le toese mo le umi e le itiiti ifo i le 10 tausaga ae le sili atu fo’i i le 30 tausaga le umi, fa’apea ai ma isi moliaga mamafa e lua, o le taumafai e ave fa’amalosi se tama’ita’i (attempted kidnapping) atoa ai ma le taumafai e tagofia itutinosa o se tama’ita’i i le tulaga muamua (attempted sexual abuse 1st degree).
O lo o tumau pea tuutuuga a le fa’amasinoga ua tuuina atu e tatala ai Yandall i tua, i le mae’a ai lea ona ia toto-giina o le tupe e $75,000 na fa’atulaga e le fa’amasinoga e tatala ai o ia i tua mai le toese i Tafuna.
O ni isi o ia tuutuuga e aofia ai le fa’asa lea ona ia toe taumafai e fa’afeso’ota’i molimau a le malo, e aofia ai tama’ita’i e to’alua o lo o tu’uaia na a’afia i le gaioiga e pei ona molia ai o ia e le malo.
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Le Kovana Itumalo o le Falelima i Sisifo, afioga Fuamatu J.V Fuamatu ma lona faletua, fa’apea ai le afioga i le Fofoga Fetalai o le maota o sui ia Savali Talavou Ale ma lona faletua fou ia Beauty, i le mae’a ai o le sauniga na fa’atautoina ai le Kovana Itumalo fou i le taeao ananafi i luga o le ofisa o le ali’i kovana. [ata AF]
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O le a toe fa’aauaua atu la tatou tala mo lenei aso. Na muta mai la tatou tala, ina ua toe savali ane le tama’ita’i tausima’i ma fesili po’o Luisa lea o lo’o i ai i le taimi lea. Na tali le teine, “Ioe o ia o Luisa, ae pe ua i ai se mea ua tupu i si ona uso.”
Na tali le tama’ita’i tausima’i, “Luisa, o lou igoa na ta’u mai e lou uso, fa’atasi ai ma le igoa o Roger, o ai Roger?” Na tali fiafia ane i ai Luisa, “O le to’alua o lo’u uso, ae o lo’o malaga le tamaloa, ona e kapeteni i va’alele, o lo’o alu lana malaga i Ausetalia.”
“Ua mafai ona toe tautala mai Filipina, ae mo le taimi nei, e mo’omia lava sana malologa, fa’afetai atu i lo outou onosa’i, ae ua ma’ea gal-uega a ali’i foma’i, ua tulaga lelei lava Filipina i le taimi lenei.” Ua fafa le isi fa’afetai i luga o le isi fa’afetai, ua maligi ifo loimata o Luisa i lea taimi.
Fai mai, o loimata o le fiafia ma le loto fa’afetai i le Atua, ina ua tali mai i talosaga le leoa sa fai i le taimi na logo ane ai, ua tulaga fa’aletonu Filipina. O lea ua tali mai le Ali’i, e lagona ai le loto fa’afetai i mea uma.
Ua tu nei i luga Lolesio, “Fa’afetai tele ia te oe le tama’ita’i, momoli atu fo’i le fa’afetai i ali’i foma’i, fa’amalolo le galulue.” Na toe fa’apea ane le tama’ita’i tausima’i, “E mo’omia la oe Luisa, e ta te o, se e va’ai i le pepe, oka, o le aulelei o le pepe, leitioa fo’i, ona o le na o le palagi lona tama.”
Ua ‘ata Mareta ma tilotilo ane ia Lolesio, ae ua punou Lolesio ua le tautala. Na tilotilo ane nei Luisa i si ona tausoga o Mareta, ae tali ane i ai Mareta e alu ia e va’ai le pepe, ae fa’atali atu
ma Lolesio. Ua fa’apea lava ona fai, fai mai, na savali fiafia nei Luisa i totonu o le potu o lo’o i ai le tama a lona uso.
Na iloa mamao atu lava e Luisa le pepe pa’epa’e o lo’o autafiti solo mai i luga o lona moega. Ua ‘ata Luisa ma savali atu i ai, “Oka, oka e, ailoga e te iloa toe titi a tupu le fa’alavelave i lou tina talutalu oe, sau, sau se i o’u si’i muamua ia te oe.”
E moni lava, o le toto e sosolo, fai mai, ina ua si’i i lima o Luisa le pepe, ua na o le autafiti solo. Ae fai mai le tala, o matua’i lapo’a lava o le pepe, e iva pauna, leitioa a tau oso le fatu o si ona tina i le taimi na fanau mai ai. E le i iloa e Filipina po’o le a si ana tama, e le i fa’ailoa fo’i i ai e ali’i foma’i, ona o lo latou manatu, se i fai se malologa a Filipina, e sau se taimi ona ta’u lea i ai.
Ae fai mai, a’o i ai Luisa i totonu o le potu failele, o le taimi lea ua alu le talanoaga a Lolesio ma Mareta. Na fa’amatala nei e Lolesio i a Mareta le latou feiloa’iga ma Lilo ma Loleta. Ua toe manatua vave ai loa e le tama, e tatau ona toe logo vave Lilo, o lea ua i ai le suiga lelei o Filipina, ina ia ‘aua ne i ta’uina i le lo’omatua, ne i tupu mai ai se fa’alavelave.
Na a’apa ifo nei Lolesio ma vili loa le telefoni a Lilo ma Loleta, fai mai, na tali mai e Loleta le telefoni i lea taimi, ae ua amata le talatalanoaga a Lilo i lo’omatutua, o Malia ma lona uso la’ititi. Na savali atu nei Loleta ma tu’u atu le telefoni i a Lilo, “Lilo, o Lolesioa, o lea ua uma galuega a ali’i foma’i, ua toe ala mai i luga Filipina, o Luisa o lo’o i totonu o le potu, o lo’o alu e va’ai le pepe, ae ‘aua le popole, alofa atu i nai lo’omatutua.”
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Onosa’i i Mea TigaNotice for Proposed Registration of Matai TitleNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 6.0105 of the Revised Code of American
Samoa that a claim of succession which has been filed with the Territorial Registrar’s office for the registration of the Matai Title LEMAFA of the village of AUNU’U by SEAU SUPPLY of the village of AUNU’U, county of SAOLE, EASTERN District.
THE TERRITORIAL REGISTRAR is satisfied that the claim, petition by the family and certifi-cate of the village chiefs are in proper form.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that anyone so desiring must file his counterclaim, or objection to the registration of this matai title with the Territorial Registrar Office before the expiration of 60 days from the date of posting. If no counterclaim, nor any objection is filed by the expiration of said 60 days, the matai title LEMAFA shall be registered in the name of SEAU SUPPLY in accordance with the laws of American Samoa.
POSTED: APRIL 7, 2017 thru JUNE 5, 2017SIGNED: Taito S.B. White, Territorial Registrar
Fa’aaliga o le Fa’amauina o se Suafa MataiO le fa’aaliga lenei ua faasalalauina e tusa ma le Maga 6.0105 o le tusi tulafono a Amerika
Samoa, e pei ona suia, ona o le talosaga ua faaulufaleina mai i le Ofisa o le Resitara o Amerika Samoa, mo le fia faamauina o le suafa matai o LEMAFA o le nu’u o AUNU’U e SEAU SUPPLY o AUNU’U faalupega o SAOLE, falelima i SASA’E.
Ua taliaina e le Resitara lea talosaga, faatasi ma le talosaga a le aiga faapea ma le tusi faamaonia mai matai o lea nu’u, ma ua i ai nei i teuga pepa a lea ofisa.
A i ai se tasi e faafinagaloina, ia faaulufaleina sana talosaga tete’e, po o sana faalavelave tusitusia i le Ofisa o Resitara i totonu o aso e 60 mai le aso na faalauiloa ai lenei fa’aaliga. Afai o lea leai se talosaga tete’e, po’o se faalavelave foi e faaulufaleina mai i aso e 60 e pei ona taua i luga, o lea faamauina loa lea suafa matai i le igoa o SEAU SUPPLY e tusa ai ma aiaiga o le tulafono a Amerika Samoa. 04/19 & 05/19/17
O se vaaiga i leoleo mo o latou aiga i le “family day” i le aso ananafi i le Siugaula o le Atuvasa i Utulei. O lea faatasiga o se tasi o vaega o le Vaiaso mo Leoleo i Amerika Samoa. [ata: AF]
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BEIJING (AP) — A frame-work agreement between China and the Association of South-east Asia Nations on a code of conduct in the South China Sea marks a potentially significant step toward cooling tensions in the strategic waterway, analysts said Friday.
While details of the agree-ment reached Thursday weren’t disclosed, it is a definite sign of progress on reaching a final code of conduct that the parties committed to 15 years ago, the experts said.
Until recently, progress has been slow amid disputes over the body of water that China claims virtually in its entirety.
For China, the code of con-duct is a means to achieving its goal of keeping the U.S. and its allies from intervening in the matter in the name of freedom of navigation or maintaining regional stability, said Huang Jing, an expert on the region at National University of Singa-pore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
“China can say, ‘Look we have already reached agree-ments, are behaving ourselves, so no need for you Americans or others to come in and get in our business,’” Huang said in a telephone interview.
The agreement suits China’s goal of managing rather than solving the disputes, with Bei-jing still certain that it will even-tually reach solutions through bilateral talks, Huang said.
For the 10 ASEAN member states, meanwhile, the agree-ment offers a chance to freeze further Chinese advances in the region at a time when the Trump administration has turned its focus away from the region with the abandonment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other developments, Huang said.
Chinese Vice Foreign Min-ister Liu Zhenmin said the text of the framework would remain secret for now, and Philippine officials said it would be sub-mitted to foreign ministers for consideration in August.
Huang said it likely contains clauses barring the use of force or unilateral changes to facts on the ground, such as the con-struction of man-made islands by China that it has equipped with airfields and military installations.
“The ASEAN countries known they can’t fight the Chi-nese or count on America so it’s best to work with China to stabilize the status quo,” Huang said.
While Huang called the
agreement “very significant progress,” Ian Storey, senior fellow at the Institute of South-east Asian Studies, a Singapore-based think tank, described it as more of a “small step forward,” based on a draft of the docu-ment agreed to in March.
“What’s new are the refer-ences to incident prevention and management, and establishing mechanisms to monitor the COC’s implementation,” Storey said.
That draft does not call for a legally binding code of conduct as some ASEAN countries had called for, Storey said, poten-tially weakening its impact.
“No matter what the final draft agreement looks like, the devil will be in working out the details,” said Storey, foreseeing a long, difficult negotiation on the final document.
Asked whether the agree-ment would be binding, Chi-nese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin told reporters: “I cannot give you a definite answer now.”
However, Liu said the agree-ment laid a “solid foundation” for further negotiations.
“All parties have vowed to continue to constructively advance the negotiations” toward the early conclusion of the code of conduct, Liu said following Thursday’s meeting in the southern Chinese city of Guiyang.
The Philippines welcomed the finalization of the draft of the framework. It contains ele-ments that the parties agreed upon and will be presented to Chinese and ASEAN foreign ministers in August for consid-eration, the statement from the Philippine Department of For-eign Affairs said.
Singapore’s Ministry of For-eign Affairs Permanent Secre-tary Chee Wee Kiong said the sides hoped that would produce needed “political support” from the ministers.
The participants have not mentioned dates for the adop-tion of a full code of conduct, and while Huang said he thought the sides could act as early as this year to seize the positive momentum, Storey said a final agreement was likely “some years off.”
Before that happens, China and the ASEAN countries said they will continue following a separate document called the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea, or DOC, which among other provisions, commits the parties to “exploring ways for building
trust and confidence ... on the basis of equality and mutual respect.”
Also Friday, China’s Liu and the Philippines ambassador to Beijing Jose Santiago “Chito” Santa Romana were to meet separately to discuss an agenda for future talks on their dispute over islands and waters in the eastern portion of the South China Sea.
China was enraged by a ruling last year from a Hague tribunal invalidating most of its South China Sea claims in a case brought by the Philippines. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has downplayed that ruling as part of his push for a broad improvement in relations between the sides since taking office in June that has cast a shadow over Manila’s ties to its longtime ally, the United States.
Despite the thaw in rela-tions, China protested a visit last month by Manila’s defense and military chiefs to a disputed island in the South China Sea. The Philippine government maintained that it owns the ter-ritory where Filipino troops and villagers have lived for decades.
At a briefing in Beijing ear-lier this week, Romana said the sides had “turned a new page” on dealing with their South China Sea issues.
“Generally, the situation has eased in terms of tensions between the Philippines and China,” he said, citing regained access by Philippine fishermen to Scarborough Shoal after years of being blocked by Chi-nese ships.
“It does not mean the dif-ferences have disappeared. As (Duterte) told President Xi (Jin-ping), there will still be prob-lems, but we are willing to dis-cuss the issues with the Chinese side and he is optimistic that the bilateral negotiations and bilat-eral dialogue is the way to go,”
Romana said.Along with the Philippines,
ASEAN members Malaysia, Vietnam and Brunei also main-tain claims in the South China Sea that overlap with those of China and Taiwan.
An estimated $5 trillion in global trade annually passes through the South China Sea, which is also home to rich fishing grounds and a potential wealth of oil, gas and other nat-ural resources.
Draft a sign of progress on
South China Sea code of conduct
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Ua taliaina e le Resitara lea talosaga, faatasi ma le talosaga a le aiga faapea ma le tusi faamaonia mai matai o lea nu’u, ma ua i ai nei i teuga pepa a lea ofisa.
A i ai se tasi e faafinagaloina, ia faaulufaleina sana talosaga tete’e, po o sana faalavelave tusitusia i le Ofisa o Resitara i totonu o aso e 60 mai le aso na faalauiloa ai lenei fa’aaliga. Afai o lea leai se talosaga tete’e, po’o se faalavelave foi e faaulufaleina mai i aso e 60 e pei ona taua i luga, o lea faamauina loa lea suafa matai i le igoa o KERUPI MOI e tusa ai ma aiaiga o le tulafono a Amerika Samoa. 04/19 & 05/19/17
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In this Sept. 23, 2015, photo, provided by Renato Etac, a Chinese Coast Guard boat sprays a water cannon at Filipino fishermen near Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. China on Friday, May 19, 2017, said it reached agreement with the 10 countries of the Association of South-east Asia Nations (ASEAN) on the rough outline of a legally binding code of conduct designed to prevent clashes in the strategic South China Sea. (Renato Etac via AP)
