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Millicent Aroi is a Nauruan diplomat. She served as the High Commissioner of Nauru to Fiji from 1996 to 2004.
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Millicent Aroi is a Nauruan diplomat. She served as the High Commissioner of Nauru to Fiji from 1996 to 2004.
Millicent Aroi is the widow of Kenos Aroi, the former President of Nauru.
Aroi was the Nauruan High Commissioner in Suva, Fiji, serving from 1996 to 2004. This diplomatic post is of ambassadorial rank, although among Commonwealth countries the designation 'High Commissioner' is customarily preferred.
Along with the Ambassadorship to the United Nations held by Marlene Moses, Aroi's tenure of the High Commissioner post means that two of Nauru's most senior diplomatic posts have been held by women.
Millicent Aroi was a delegate at the South Pacific Environment Ministers Meeting on 1–17 August 1995 in Brisbane. [1]
Nauru, officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Micronesia, part of Oceania in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba of Kiribati, about 300 km (190 mi) to the east.
The history of human activity in Nauru, an island country in the Pacific Ocean, began roughly 3,000 years ago when clans settled the island.
The politics of Nauru take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Nauru is the head of government of the executive branch. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the parliament. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
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Marcus Ajemada Stephen is a Nauruan politician and former sportsperson who previously was a member of the Cabinet of Nauru, and who served as President of Nauru from December 2007 to November 2011. The son of Nauruan parliamentarian Lawrence Stephen, Stephen was educated at St Bedes College and RMIT University in Victoria, Australia. Initially playing Australian rules football, he opted to pursue the sport of weightlifting, in which he represented Nauru at the Summer Olympics and Commonwealth Games between 1990 and 2002, winning seven Commonwealth gold medals.
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Topics related to Nauru include:
The Japanese occupation of Nauru was the period of three years during which Nauru, a Pacific island which at that time was under Australian administration, was occupied by the Japanese military as part of its operations in the Pacific War during World War II. With the onset of the war, the islands that flanked Japan's South Seas possessions became of vital concern to Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and in particular to the Imperial Navy, which was tasked with protecting Japan's outlying Pacific territories.
India–Nauru relations are the international relations that exist between India and Nauru. These have been established since the island's independence in 1968.
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Nauru-United States relations are the bilateral relations of Nauru and the United States The U.S. has no consular or diplomatic offices in Nauru. Officers of the American Embassy in Suva, Fiji, are concurrently accredited to Nauru and make periodic visits.
Nauru competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The country's participation in Tokyo marked its seventh appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut in 1996.
Events in the year 2021 in Nauru.
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