Press Release

    The US National Security council’s Indo Pacific Coordinator, Kurt Campbell and delegation met up with Prime Minister Hon. Alatoi Ishmael Kalsakau Maau’Koro on Wednesday 22nd March 2022, along with Foreign Affairs minister Jotham Napat for Bilateral talks.

    The United States has indicate that they will be opening its embassy here in Port Vila, Re-Introduce the peace corps program and revive the cooperation with US Coast Guard to assist in protecting our waters and protect our marine resources from illegal fishing activities. The US will also involve more in climate change to build more ware house of relief supplies for immediate response.

    An extra amount of $3 Million has been announced by US to go towards shelter, water and food security.

    Prime Minister Hon Alatoi Ishmael Kalsakau has officially launched the new company VANUEX LTD on 7th February 2023, which will be conducting business/trade through Digital technology. He has pointed out that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) economic outlook is within the same level of Digital transformation.

    Most country’s economy are moving towards Digital and Vanuatu is going in the same direction.

     

    The announcement was made along side MP Jessy Luo, MP for Malekula Hon Anatole Hymak and Minister of Agriculture Hon Nako Natuman.

     

    4 billion VT projects to be funded from Chinese funds that were never used. Prime Minister Hon Alatoi Ishmael Kalsakau Maau’koro has announced a total of 4 billion projects from the aid money that was never utilised by the previous government. The 2 billion for 2021 will be injected into road projects for Efate and Santo while a further 2 million for 2022 will be go towards the construction of a new school of nursing collage in Santo and up grading health facilities.

    The Prime Minister made the announcement after signing off all documentations that were later dispatched to Chinese Embassy last week. When he came into office after his election as PM, he found out that 2 billion Chinese grand for 2021 and another 2 million for 2022 was never put to use. The Prime Minister Maau’koro said it is best to target only two islands and make an impact and move to other islands next. This does not mean the government has ignored other islands completely under this grand. We have 2023 and 2024 still to be utilised and the Public Works will still continue working on our roads.

    As of Wednesday 18th December, the Recovery Operation Committee has been activated at the Prime Minister's Office.
     
    The Council of Ministers (COM) Decision No. 351 'SOE For Earthquake 17th December 2024` has mandated the National Recovery Committee (NRC) through the Recovery Operation Centre (ROC) to develop a recovery plan following the devastating magnitude 7.4 earthquake that stroked Vanuatu, specifically Efate Island on Tuesday 17th December 2024.
     
    The main purpose of the ROC is to coordinate the development of the Shefa earthquake recovery Plan. The ROC is working closely with the National Disaster Management Officer on information sharing to develop the Shefa earthquake recovery plan.
     
    Any immediate response including life saving activities should be directed to the National
    Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) located at the National Disaster Management Office, Ministry of Climate Change.

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