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 CIS NO: 90-H382-11
 TITLE: Problems in Paradise: U.S. Interests in the South Pacific.
 SOURCE: Committee on Foreign Affairs. House
 DOC TYPE: Print                     COLLATION: vii+151 p.
 DATE: May 1990
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 101-2             SUDOC: Y4.F76/1:So8/52
 ITEM NO: 1017-A; 1017-B
 LC CARD NO: 90-601311               MC ENTRY NO: 90-15589

 Report of Aug. 5-16, 1989 Congressional delegation trip to Kiribati, Fiji,
 Western Samoa, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon
 Islands to assess U.S. interests and policies in the South Pacific region.
   Reviews regional issues, including economic development prospects and
 concerns about U.S. economic assistance levels, foreign driftnet fishing,
 and U.S. ratification of the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty and its
 protocols (texts, p. 105-123).
   Includes recommendations for U.S. policy in the South Pacific (p. 73-78),
 and:
 a. H. Con. Res. 214, to declare U.S. support for regional efforts to
     protect South Pacific marine resources against driftnet fishing, text
     (p. 99-104).
 b. H. Con. Res. 218, to express Congressional support for ratifying the
     South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty and its protocols, text (p.
     124-128).
 CONTENT NOTATION: South Pacific regional issues and US policies,
     Congressional study mission rpt
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): 
     CONGRESSIONAL.STUDY.MISSION.REPORTS; PACIFIC OCEAN AREA;
     FOREIGN.RELATIONS; FOREIGN.ASSISTANCE; FISH AND FISHING INDUSTRY;
     TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS; ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT; MARINE
     RESOURCES CONSERVATION (Driftnet fishing restrictions in South Pacific,
     Congressional resolution text);
     INTERNATIONAL.COOPERATION.IN.ENVIRONMENTAL.AFFAIRS (Driftnet fishing
     restrictions in South Pacific, Congressional resolution text); SENSE OF
     CONGRESS RESOLUTIONS (South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty
     ratification, Congressional resolution text); KIRIBATI; FIJI; WESTERN
     SAMOA; NEW CALEDONIA; VANUATU; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SOLOMON ISLANDS;
     ECONOMIC.DEVELOPMENT; SOUTH PACIFIC NUCLEAR FREE ZONE TREATY
 BILLS: 101 H.Con.Res.214; 101 H.Con.Res.218