Exclusive-US negotiator expects to sign new deal with strategic Marshall Islands on Monday
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden poses with leaders from the U.S.- Pacific Island Country Summit, New Caledonia's President Louis Mapou, Tonga's Prime Minister Hu'akavemeiliku Siaosi Sovaleni, Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jr., Tuvalu's Prime Mini
After decades of relative neglect, the nations have found themselves at the center of a U.S. battle for influence with China in the Northern Pacific and the Biden administration agreed new deals with the two other states, Palau and Micronesia, earlier this year. "This is the last of the three compacts that we have been doing. The other two have been done," Yun said."Once we have signed, we will transmit it to the U.S. Congress, where together with the other two, I hope they will be enacted soon."
Analysts and former officials had blamed a delay in finalizing the Marshall Islands COFA on U.S. State Department lawyers wanting to control how new funds were spent and objecting to their being earmarked to address the nuclear legacy, fearing this could lay the U.S. open to more claims.
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