Letters

PNG should lead in Solomons rebel conflict PNG should give a leading hand in the Solomon Islands’ rebel conflict. The government of Sir Mekere Morauta should immediately step in and take a mediator role in the Solomon Islands rebel conflict between the Malaita Eagle Force and the Guadalcanal Revolutionary Army.

It is a slap in the face of Solomon Islands’ politicians and the people of a Melanesian country where the Solomon Islands government took a major task in solving the Bougainville Uprising.

Where is Melanesian Solidairty, Papua New Guinea? It seems that our Prime Minister has become so absorbed by Australian politics that he forgets about our closest neighbour and Melanesian brother country.

I hope Sir Mekere Morauta is briefed on the situation in the Solomon Islands.

John Sebastian Kriosaki, Wewak, Papua New Guinea Just Wake itl The Kingdom of EnenKio continues to promote the rule of law. Within the vast resources of the United States, solutions to disposal of these toxic chemicals must

abound, yet DOD wants you to believe that not only are they committed to environmental security, when the fact is that no assessment of the potential effects on the environment has been done in this case, but that Wake Island is the only viable option for storage.

For more than 150 years, the US government has conducted operations in the Pacific region in secret and without opposition. This operation is no different.

The US has even (recently) declared Wake Island (its real name is Eneen-Kio Atoll) OUTSIDE the customs territory of the United States.

This convenient declaration circumvents federal law banning importation of PCBs, and in one swift thrust thus, removes oversight by Congress, the media and the American People and grants carte blanche to the war lords of the United States Army and DOD.

With the law out of the way, what constraints shall be used to ensure accountability? How long will these materials sit at Wake before they are

completely forgotten? Does anybody

remember the other incidents of re locating waste to Wake?

EnenKio deplores this brand of lawlessness, condones oversight by US Congress, federal and international agencies and challenges opposed nations to have the courage to speak out against these acts as fundamental violations of

maritime and international law.

Eneen-Kio Atoll is currently a topic of dispute between our countries. The king’s claim of ownership to the atoll was fully acknowledged by our sister Republic of the Marshall Islands in 1989, is perfected by the Kingdom of EnenKio on paper and in US courts - the US has never formally denied the claim - and yet, the United States exercises its legendary commitments to upholding human rights and protecting the environment by shipping toxic waste to King Remios’ islands!

Well, no doubt this toxic shipment will join the rest of the toxic wastes, chemical and biological pollutants, nuclear and weapons materials dumped and stored there with hardly a whimper from the ignoble flocks of birds and turtles.

If the stuff is so benign, why has it been for months shipped back and forth across the Pacific and shuffled from port to port where ample facilities existed for handling?

And who is getting rich in the process?

The United States must be prevented from carrying out its insidiobs plans to hide its mistakes at Wake, else will be born the idiom, “Just Wake it!”

Robert Moore, Minister Plenipotentiary, Kingdom of EnenKio Foreign Trade Mission Majuro, Marshall Islands

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