Kiribati to attend pact?
NZPA-AP Honolulu The president of Kiribati says he is ready to negotiate an extension of a fishing pact with the Soviet Union. Mr leremia Tabai said that a one-year, SUSI. 7 million ($3.19 million) fishing agreement with the Soviets “has worked very well”. “They have paid up as agreed and they have behaved as agreed.” Mr Tabai agreed last year to let 16 Soviet deepsea fishing boats work in Kiribati’s economic zone. They may not land on any of Kiribati’s 33 coral atolls except in an emergency, nor are they allowed within Kiribati’s 12 nautical mile territorial waters.
Kiribati, formerly the Gilbert Islands, has been an independent nation for the last seven years. Its capital is Tarawa, about 4667 km south-west of Hawaii and south of the Kwajalein missile range in the Marshall Islands. The missile range is engaged in the ballistic and MX missile testing and monitors the space shuttle programme.
The SUSI. 7 million represents about one-eighth of Kiribati’s national annual budget. About 59,000 people live on the atolls.
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