In June 2007, Nauru adopted the " Cuban literacy method ", reportedly used also in several other countries.

The country also is one of the eight signatories of the Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation In The Management Of Fisheries Of Common Interest which collectively controls 25-30 % of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60 % of the western and central Pacific tuna supply.

Nauru was also approached by the U. S. with a deal to modernize Nauru's infrastructure in exchange for suppression of the island's lax banking laws that allow activities that are illegal in other countries to flourish.

Under this deal, allegedly, Nauru would also establish an embassy in China and perform certain " safehouse " and courier services for the U. S. government, in a scheme codenamed " Operation Weasel ".

A small overseas population also lives in Nauru, made up mainly of Chinese, Filipinos, Tuvaluans and I-Kiribati.

The government has also invested in property on other islands and the United States through its Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust.

The case was soon afterwards settled out of court by Australia, with Britain and New Zealand also contributing to the reparations sought by Nauru.

It also arguably represented a period when the Nauru electorate and their representatives were appearing to come to terms with being educated into the perceived need for economic austerity measures and the disciplines which coincided with them, and into a broader reflection on improvements in political culture.

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The country also hosted the regional meeting that resulted in the Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation In The Management Of Fisheries Of Common Interest whose eight signatories ( including Naurua ) collectively controls 25-30 % of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60 % of the western and central Pacific tuna supply.

" The declaration also contained an undertaking by Nauru to close its embassy in Taipei within one month, which was curious because Nauru had never had a diplomatic mission in Taiwan.

In June 2007, Nauru adopted the " Cuban literacy method ", reportedly used also in several other countries.

At approximately this time, Nauru-US relations underwent tensions for reasons which were not completely clear ( See also: Foreign relations of Nauru # Ties with the United States of America, above ).

In October 2008 the new US Ambassador to Fiji, also accredited to Nauru, pledged efforts to assist Nauru's economic development.

This species has also been reported from numerous Pacific islands, including American Samoa, the Chagos Archipelago, Easter Island, Christmas Island, the Cook Islands, the Marquesas Islands, the Tuamotu Archipelago, Guam, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Caledonia, the Marianas Islands, Palau, the Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, the Hawaiian Islands, and Vanuatu.

See also Languages of Nauru.

Uaboe ( also known as Waboe ) is a district in the island nation of Nauru, located in the northwest of the island.

Delaporte and his family, including his wife, Samole ( also a missionary ), arrived in Nauru under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sent by Central Union Church of Honolulu.

Harris's periods as President of Nauru were sometimes owing to his alliance with the influential Kinza Clodumar, himself a former President, but also exercising considerable negotiating weight in the Parliament of Nauru.

Notably in certain complex colonial units within the British Empire, the High Commissioner to whom was given the highest ' regional ' supervision ( either residing in one of the constitutive territories, e. g. in the British Western Pacific Territories ( BWPT ), first by the Governor on Fiji, then from 1952 onwards on the Solomon Islands ; or even in a neighbouring colony, e. g. the Governor of the Straits Settlements as High Commissioner for the Federated Malay States ) would commonly be represented in territories not comprising his residence by a Resident Commissioner, though in some places ( including some of the Federated Malay States ) similar officials were formally styled as Residents, a more diplomatic title ; otherwise another type of official was also possible ( e. g. the British Consul in the protected state of Tonga, a Polynesian kingdom ; an Administrator on Nauru ; a mere Chief Magistrate on tiny Pitcairn ).

Australian rules is the national sport of Nauru.

A Great Britain national Australian rules football team | British Bulldog player is chased down and tackled by a Nauru national Australian rules football team | Nauru Chief opponent as he tries to get a kick away.

: Includes five archipelagoes ; Makatea in French Polynesia is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean-the others are Banaba ( Ocean Island ) in Kiribati and Nauru

Kiribati is one of the eight signatories of the Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation In The Management Of Fisheries Of Common Interest which collectively controls 25-30 % of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60 % of the western and central Pacific tuna supply.

The matter is being pursued in an Australian court, and initial judgments have been in favor of Nauru.

Nauru is a tiny phosphate rock island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean south of the Marshall Islands in Oceania.

Nauru is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean — the others are Banaba ( Ocean Island ) in Kiribati and Makatea in French Polynesia.

Nauru is a raised coral atoll positioned in the Nauru Basin of the Pacific Ocean, on a part of the Pacific Plate that formed at a mid oceanic ridge at 132 Ma.

Nauru is moving at 104 mm per year to the north west along with the Pacific Plate.

Nauru is party to the international environmental agreements on biodiversity, climate change, desertification, law of the sea and marine dumping.

This is a list of the extreme points of Nauru, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Nauru, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Education in Nauru is both free and compulsory from age 5 through 16.

The infant mortality rate for Nauru was 10. 33 deaths for every 1000 live births, the birth rate is about 26. 09 births per 1, 000, and the overall population growth rate is 1. 9 percent.

Politics of Nauru takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Nauru is the head of government of the executive branch.

The phosphate supply has virtually all been exhausted in recent years and as such, the future of the people of Nauru is uncertain, and the challenge for the country's policy makers will be to determine a path of continued economic prosperity, without the benefits of this resource.

Since Nauru imports almost everything it consumes ( including food, water and fuel ) the need to diversify the economy and to generate other sources of revenue is of paramount importance.

Today, Nauru is almost totally dependent on trade with New Zealand, Australia and Fiji.

It is hoped that this economic activity might lift Nauru from the bottom rung of global GDP per capita.

Air service is provided by Our Airline, formerly Air Nauru.

Of the 193 member states of the United Nations, only 17 are not party to the treaty: Andorra, Angola, Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( North Korea ), Federated States of Micronesia, Haiti, Iraq, Kiribati, Lebanon, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Nauru, South Sudan, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Turkmenistan and Tuvalu.

On 23 May 2011, Vanuatu became the fifth UN member state ( after Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Nauru ) to recognise Abkhazia.

On 15 March 1983 he was first elected to the Parliament for his district Anbar ; in his longtime tenure as parliament member Scotty was the chairman of the Bank of Nauru, the Nauru Rehabilitation Corporation and in the board of directors of Air Nauru.

Scotty spent a short period in Opposition from August 2003 until June 2004, remaining a member of the Parliament of Nauru.

Ludwig Scotty returned as President on 22 June 2004 after a member of Harris's faction of the Parliament of Nauru defected.

Ludwig Scotty remained a member of the Parliament of Nauru, following the no confidence defeat in Parliament of his Administration in 2007.

Nauru became a full member of the Commonwealth of Nations in May 1999.

Since independence, Nauru had been a special member of the Commonwealth prior to 1999, but having fallen behind in payments, reverted back to Special Member Status on 1 July 2005, with no authoritative power.

Additionally outside the region, Nauru is a member or participant of the ACP ( Lomé Convention ), the Alliance of Small Island States, the Asian Development Bank, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( ESCAP ), the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), the G-77, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Olympic Committee, the ITU, the NAM, the World Meteorological Organization and the World Trade Organization.

For example, Nauru is one of only three UN-recognized nations with a sea border that is not a member of the International Maritime Organization ( the others are the Federated States of Micronesia and Niue ).

Similarly, the Nauru is one of only seven UN members that is not a member of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, one of 8 not part of the International Monetary Fund, one of 12 UN not part of the International Finance Corporation.

Finally, as with many other nations in Oceania, Nauru is not a member of Interpol or of the International Hydrographic Organization.

Additionally, Nauru is a full member of the Pacific Islands Forum, the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission, the Pacific Regional Environment Programme and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community.

Nauru has used its position as a member of the United Nations to gain financial support from both the Republic of China ( ROC ) and the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) by changing its position on the political status of Taiwan.

The President of Nauru Marcus Stephen, who took office in 2007, is a member of the Parliament of Nauru representing the Anetan and Ewa constituency.

Keke had previously been regarded as a reformist, both through his participation in the Administration of Ludwig Scotty, and because of the reformist discourse of the Nauru First Party, of which Keke is a prominent member.

In April 2008 Keke was reelected to the Parliament of Nauru and was retained as a leading member of the Administration of President Marcus Stephen.

The Commonwealth Association of Public Administration and Management CAPAM http :// www. capam. org / is perhaps the most diverse, covering the 54 member states of the Commonwealth from India to Nauru.

He is a member of the indigenous population of Nauru, and he is concerned with environmental issues.

He is a founding member of the Naoero Amo ( Nauru First Party ), currently the only successful political party on the island.

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