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Nauru and International
In 1989, Nauru took legal actions against Australia in the International Court of Justice over Australia's actions during its administration of Nauru.
Finally, in 1993, Nauru was forced to turn to the International Court of Justice at The Hague in The Netherlands.
1 ( Nauru International Airport )
1 ( Nauru International Airport, IATA airport code INU )
The advisory opinion was issued in response to a formal request made by the International Seabed Authority following two prior applications the Authority's Legal and Technical Commission had received from the Republics of Nauru and Tonga regarding proposed activities ( a plan of work to explore for polymetallic nodules ) to be undertaken in the Area by two State-sponsored contractors ( Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. ( sponsored by the Republic of Nauru ) and Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd. ( sponsored by the Kingdom of Tonga ).
Nauru International Airport
* the Nauru International Airport and the air terminal
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.
Nauru also is not a member of the International Development Association and has no society associated with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Finally, as with many other nations in Oceania, Nauru is not a member of Interpol or of the International Hydrographic Organization.
Its main base is Nauru International Airport.
Its head office is on the property of Nauru International Airport, Yaren District, and its operations office is in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Nauru has competed internationally in Australian rules football at the Arafura Games, Australian Football International Cup and Barassi International Youth Tournament.
Nauru earns a distinction for being the smallest nation ( by population ) in the 202 member International Olympic Committee.

Nauru and Court
As per an agreement between Nauru and Australia in 1976, in application of article 57 of the Constitution of Nauru, the High Court of Australia is the ultimate court of appeal for the sovereign Republic of Nauru, formerly an Australian League of Nations mandate.
Thus the High Court may hear appeals from the Supreme Court of Nauru in both criminal and civil cases, with certain exceptions ; in particular, no case pertaining to the Constitution of Nauru may be decided by the Australian court.
The airline has been in dispute with the Export-Import Bank of the United States since 2002, and in December 2005 the High Court of Australia upheld an earlier decision to allow the bank to seize Air Nauru's only aircraft, registered VH-RON, leaving Nauru and the island nation Kiribati without air services.
Article 55 of the Constitution of Nauru provides: " The President or a Minister may, in accordance with the approval of the Cabinet, refer to the Supreme Court for its opinion any question concerning the interpretation or effect of any provision of this Constitution which has arisen or appears to the Cabinet likely to arise, and the Supreme Court shall pronounce in open court its opinion on the question.

Nauru and Justice
Russell Kun, who has served as the Republic of Nauru's Justice Minister and as the Speaker of the Parliament of Nauru, formerly represented Ubenide in Parliament.
Robin Rhodes Millhouse QC ( born 9 December 1929 ) has been, at various times, the South Australian Attorney-General, the first Australian Democrats parliamentarian, and the Chief Justice of both Kiribati and Nauru.
He was Chief Justice of Nauru from early 2006 to late 2010.

Nauru and for
Among coral tropic islands for example are Maldives, Tonga, Nauru and Polynesia.
The Germans ruled Nauru for almost three decades.
The Japanese troops built an airfield on Nauru which was bombed for the first time on 25 March 1943, preventing food supplies from being flown to Nauru.
In 1993, Australia offered Nauru an out-of-court settlement of 2. 5 million Australian dollars annually for 20 years.
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 ".
Nauru has yet to develop a plan to remove the innumerable coral pinnacles created by mining and make those lands suitable for human habitation.
The tiny equatorial island of Nauru has been inhabited for about 2, 000 years.
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.
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.
The mining left an ecological and economic disaster for Nauru to handle when the country achieved independence in 1968.
Taiwan and Nauru had shared diplomatic ties for 22 years ; Taiwan has enjoyed diplomatic ties with several Pacific countries even in the face of the " One China policy " by Beijing.
By August 2004, a report by the Australian Center for Independent Studies suggested that Nauru might consider relinquishing its independent status in favor of becoming an Australian territory.
In anticipation of the exhaustion of its phosphate deposits, substantial amounts of the income from phosphates were invested in trust funds aimed to help cushion the transition and provide for Nauru ’ s economic future.
Phosphate ship for exporting in Nauru harbor
* Nauru ( mostly for financial services, and banking )
Relations between Australia and Nauru were essentially framed by the Pacific Solution, whereby Nauru housed a detention centre for unauthorised refugee applicants who had attempted to enter Australia, and Australia provided financial aid in return.
The world's five smallest sovereign states: Vatican City, Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu and San Marino, shown in the same scale for size comparison

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