Nauru is one of four Pacific countries to receive assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) through its Asia Pacific Disaster Response Fund to help finance the response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Nauru now has twelve tuna purse-seiners fishing under its flag as it moves away from leasing fishing rights to foreign vessels to having its own fleet, Fiskeforum reported.
“Capture and contain” is the Government’s policy to minimise the infiltration of coronavirus (COVID-19) into the Nauruan community, President Lionel Aingimea said.
Chung, who has been at the helm of OFC since 2011, took the decision after much deliberation citing personal reasons.
The OFC Executive Committee will meet on Sunday 8 April.
