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Latest Kiribati News

U.S. Envoy to Fiji Named
President Reagan has named Carl Dillery to be the United States Ambassador to Fiji, the Kingdom of Tonga, Tuvalu and the Republic of Kiribati, the White House announced today. He will replace Fred J. Eckert. Mr. Dillery, a career Foreign Service officer, has previously served in Brussels, London and Nicosia. Since 1982 he has been director of the State Department's Office of United Nations Political Affairs.

Afghan Migrants On Hunger Strike In Indonesia
Forty-six Afghan migrants have gone on hunger strike in Indonesia to press their case for political asylum in Australia, officials said Monday. The migrants were arrested Thursday as they were preparing to leave Bengkulu province for Christmas Island,

Afghan migrants go on hunger strike in Indonesia
Forty six Afghan migrants in Indonesia have gone on hunger strike to argue their case for political asylum in Australia. Officials say they were arrested on Thursday as they were preparing to leave Bengkulu province in a boat for Christmas Island off

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The Gilbert Islands were granted self-rule by the UK in 1971 and complete independence in 1979 under the new name of Kiribati. The US relinquished all claims to the sparsely inhabited Phoenix and Line Island groups in a 1979 treaty of friendship with Kiribati.

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