and we're involved in conflicts and also we're involved in a tremendous crises that she ought to take a look and as you know former president clinton is an invoice  change and maintaining a world best missile defense infrastructure most importantly we seek to work with governments in peoples of the pacific to foster a stable democratic and prosperous country i have written testimony which address primarily by the department of interior totals over two hundred million dollars annually the millennium challenge corporation has a five year sixty six million dollars compact which focuses on transportation infrastructure s navy's pacific partnership program has been providing medical dental veterinary and engineering assistance in the asia pacific region for several years now in two thousand and eight the pacific partnership provided medical treatment to over twenty fleet are committing more than twenty million dollars this year to this mission in addition to these bilateral programs the united states is a member and supporter of some of the region's most important multilateral program through the secretariat of the pacific community million dollars annually through the south pacific tuna treaty we will be participating in the pacific island forum posts forum dialogue meetings next week in australia this year a major theme for the dialogue partners is donor coordination assistant secretary of state kurt campbell will lead a robust delegation to meet and consult with the civic leaders the strong u s presence in cairns is an indication of the obama administration's commitment to the region soldiers alongside u s troops in iraq and talking is moving forward in a peaceful transition on a path towards a constitutional democracy in the un general assembly unanimously adopted a resolution sponsored by now rules and other small island developing states entitled climate change and its possible security implications this resolution underscored the dire nature of the threat climate change posed to their nation and was supported by the us as  hydrocarbon fluorocarbons the on the requirements of the montreal protocol and i would like especially to express our appreciation to president toribiong and the people in government of palau for their humanitarian offer to resettle weaker detainees from nations earlier this year this is a growing countries are stalwart friend and we share a similar role view and values the united states is firmly committed to the advancement of human rights and democracy worldwide in this regard we want provide reports on human rights and trafficking and certainly as mentioned earlier the most troubling political issue in the pacific today is the situation in the military coup of december two thousand and steps to restore democratic rule other than the promise to begin working three years from now on a new constitution leading to elections in two thousand and fourteen public emergency regulations remain in place the press remains computer going around that i was appointed as a special agent of barack obama for which i went to indonesia went to jakarta attended even the schools that he went to to about two hundred million and i'm a little puzzled if we consider this is foreign assistance or is a part of our treaty obligations that we have towards the marshall law towards  beings on this part of the country on the question of palau and you know there's a lot of hype in the media right now and i must say that i was very moved by one of our state department officials about two years ago about diplomacy conducted or has been conducted by china and taiwan over the favors of these countries