Relations between the Republic of Vanuatu and Cuba began shortly after the former gained its independence from France and the United Kingdom in 1980, and began establishing its own foreign policy as a newly independent state.

In May 2009, Vanuatu appointed its first ever ambassador to China, former Minister of Finance Willie Jimmy.

The bill-tabled by Independent MP Ralph Regenvanu and supported by Prime Minister Edward Natapei and opposition leader Maxime Carlot Korman-committed Vanuatu to recognising West Papua's independence ; to seeking observer status for West Papua in the Melanesian Spearhead Group and in the Pacific Islands Forum ; and to " request Nations General Assembly support for the International Court of Justice to provide an advisory opinion on the process in which the former Netherlands New Guinea was ceded to Indonesia in the 1960s ".

In former years copra was collected by traders going from island to island and port to port in the Pacific Ocean but South Pacific production is now much diminished, with the exception of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.

* Sandwich Island, a former name by James Cook of Efate Island in The Republic of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean

Upon retirement from the governor generalcy in 1984, Schreyer announced that he would donate his pension to the environmental Canadian Shield Foundation ; unlike other former viceroys, he clearly had no intent of removing himself from political and diplomatic life, as he was on the same day he ceased to be governor general appointed by his viceregal successor as the High Commissioner to Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu for Her Majesty's Government in Canada.

He narrowly beat his nearest opponent, Maxime Carlot Korman, another former Vanuatu Prime Minister and the leader of the Vanuatu Republican Party, who captured 25 votes in Parliament.

* November 18-Alfred Maseng, former President of Vanuatu.

Josias Moli is the former speaker of the Parliament of Vanuatu and former acting President of Vanuatu.

On 29 June, Foreign Minister Tavola said that Fiji was " running out of patience " and that he was writing to the government of Vanuatu in what he called a " final gesture of friendship.

Foreign Minister Tavola denounced the latest move of the Vanuatu government on 3 August, saying that it breached an agreement.

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According to ABC Radio Australia, " Foreign policy issues that feature in Vanuatu include wide support for the Free West Papua Movement and broadly for independence throughout Melanesia, the One China Policy and relations with Australia and New Zealand.

Vanuatu briefly recognized the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) in late 2004 when on 3 November Prime Minister Serge Vohor signed a communiqué in Taipei with ROC Foreign Minister Mark Chen.

However, Vohor did so without consultations with his cabinet and the PRC Foreign Ministry, quoting the Vanuatu Foreign Minister, denied ties with the ROC had been established.

On 24 November 2000, then Foreign affairs minister Serge Vohor announced that Vanuatu suspended that recognition and established ambassadorial level relations with Morocco.

Foreign Affairs Minister Alfred Carlot said that " Vanuatu ’ s foreign policy aims at eradicating colonialism from the face of the earth.

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He was elected Prime Minister of Vanuatu on two separate terms, and was previously the Minister of Foreign Affairs briefly in 1991, the acting President of Vanuatu from 2 March 1999 to 24 March 1999 ( during a time in which he was the Speaker of Parliament ), and Deputy Prime Minister.

Category: Foreign Ministers of Vanuatu

Category: Foreign Ministers of Vanuatu

Category: Foreign Ministers of Vanuatu

Category: Foreign Ministers of Vanuatu

* George Wells ( politician ), Internal Affairs Minister of Vanuatu

-Deputy Commissioner of Maritime Affairs of the Republic of Vanuatu,

* Prime Minister of Vanuatu

The head of the Republic is an elected President, but the Prime Minister of Vanuatu is the head of government.

The country's first elected leader, Prime Minister Father Walter Lini, governed Vanuatu from 1980 to 1991, and shaped its initial foreign policy in distinct ways.

[...] When the Prime Minister met Nelson Mandela in Namibia, Mandela knew about Vanuatu because it has always been among the countries in the region that have most clearly spoken out on the problem of apartheid ".

In 2004, Australia threatened to cut its aid to Vanuatu when then-Prime Minister Serge Vohor reappointed officials who had been dismissed after being charged with criminal activity.

The Vanuatu Council of Ministers, in the Prime Minister's absence, announced on 11 November that the communiqué had been withdrawn but a spokesman for the Prime Minister denied this a day later.

The following month, however, the Vanuatu government of Prime Minister Sato Kilman was voided by the Supreme Court, on the grounds that Kilman's election in December 2010 had not conformed to constitutional requirements.

Natapei was elected Prime Minister on 22 September 2008, by the Parliament of Vanuatu after three weeks of negotiations following the country's September 2nd general election.

Category: National symbols of Vanuatu

Natapei removed half of his cabinet members and cut ties with two political parties, National United Party and the Vanuatu Republican Party, when it was revealed that the parties and their members were planning to launch a no confidence motion against his government.

* National United Party ( Vanuatu )

Thus, when the 37 year-old Director of the Vanuatu National Cultural Council, Ralph Regenvanu, stood for Parliament in 2008, he was a political newcomer.

Natapei had learned that Lini's Vanuatu National United Party and the Vanuatu Republican Party were planning a vote of no confidence measure against him.

In response to the no confidence plan, Natapei sacked half his cabinet members, including Lini, and removed the Vanuatu National United Party and the Vanuatu Republican Party from his cabinet, replacing them with sixteen members of the opposition.

Category: National United Party ( Vanuatu ) politicians

*" TEAM VANUATU TO ATHENS OLYMPICS ", Vanuatu Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee

Category: National United Party ( Vanuatu ) politicians

There are four ( 4 ) banks in Luganville, namely National Bank of Vanuatu, ANZ, Westpac, and BRED Bank.

The Vanuatu National United Party is a political party in Vanuatu.

In 1991, Walter Lini who had served as prime minister of Vanuatu for 12 years as a member of the Vanua ' aku Pati and lost his position after a split in the Vanua ' aku Pati, joined the National United Party, soon becoming its leader.

sv: Vanuatu National United Party

The National Community Association ( Association de la communauté nationale ) is a political party in Vanuatu.

# redirect National United Party ( Vanuatu )

In 1988, he left Fiji for six months to pursue a fellowship at the Australian National University, and on his return, he was appointed Head of EPOC ( the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( ESCAP ) Pacific Operations Centre in Vanuatu, a position he held until 2000.

Sculpture garden of the National Gallery, Canberra with graveposts from Vanuatu