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and six of Taiwan’s remaining diplomatic allies in the 
Pacific Islands region advocate on Taiwan’s behalf at the 
United Nations and other international fora; 
Whereas the United States plays an active role in regional 
fisheries management through its involvement in the 
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission and 
in maintaining programs to help Pacific Island countries 
combat illegal fishing, including bilateral ‘‘shiprider’’ 
agreements that allow law enforcement officers of host 
partner countries onboard United States Coast Guard 
ships and aircraft to patrol national exclusive economic 
zones; 
Whereas the United States, through more than 17 depart-
ments and agencies, committed more than $350 million 
in fiscal year 2017 to engagement with Pacific Islands 
countries; 
Whereas the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2018 and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
2018 authorized and appropriated $123.8 million in 
funding through 2024 for the 2010 Palau Compact Re-
view Agreement; 
Whereas every two years, the United States Navy’s Pacific 
Fleet hosts the world’s largest international maritime ex-
ercise, known as the ‘‘Rim of the Pacific’’, for which this 
past year Tongan Marines traveled to Hawaii with Aus-
tralia’s Navy to participate and Fiji has been invited to 
join the exercise in 2020; and 
Whereas in September 2018 at the 30th Pacific Islands 
Forum in Nauru, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke 
stated the United States ‘‘see[s] all of the Pacific Islands 
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as an essential part of our free and open Indo-Pacific 
policy’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) reaffirms its strong commitment to United 
States engagement with all countries and territories 
of the South Pacific region, including the Cook Is-
lands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, 
French Polynesia, Kiribati, Nauru, New Caledonia, 
Niue, the Republic of Palau, Papua New Guinea, the 
Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, the Sol-
omon 
Islands, 
Tokelau, 
Tonga, 
Tuvalu, 
and 
Vanuatu; 
(2) reaffirms its strong support to the United 
States Pacific Island territories of Guam, the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and 
American Samoa, home to nearly 300,000 United 
States citizens; 
(3) supports continued efforts to deepen co-
operation with countries and territories of the Pa-
cific Islands in areas of mutual interest, such as ad-
dressing the negative impacts of climate change, 
promoting sustainable economic development, and 
supporting regional organizations and stability; 
(4) calls for the United States to increase the 
frequency of high-level bilateral and multilateral vis-
its with leaders of Pacific Islands; 
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(5) promotes and supports efforts by Australia, 
New Zealand, France, and other like-minded part-
ners to strengthen Pacific Islands countries’ sov-
ereignty and development through economic and se-
curity assistance; and 
(6) encourages continued support for the Com-
pacts of Free Association which enhance the stra-
tegic posture of the United States in the Western 
Pacific, reinforce United States regional commit-
ment, preempt potential adversaries from estab-
lishing positional advantage, and further self-govern-
ance, economic development, and self-sufficiency of 
the Freely Associated States. 
Æ 
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