Sustaining U.S. Pacific Insular Relationships
Webcast
In this joint hearing with the Committee on Natural Resources, Members will hear from Administration officials on U.S. relations with the Freely Associated States (the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau), Pacific island nations with which the United States shares a uniquely close relationship, including responsibility for security and defense matters, under the Compacts of Free Association.
Witnesses
Panel I
The Honorable Randall G. Schriver
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs
U.S. Department of Defense
Ms. Sandra Oudkirk
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Mr. Nikolao Pula
Director
Office of Insular Affairs
U.S. Department of the Interior
David Gootnick, Ph.D.
Director of International Affairs and Trade
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Panel II
His Excellency Gerald M. Zackios
Ambassador to the United States
Republic of the Marshall Islands
His Excellency Akillino H. Susaia
Ambassador to the United States
Federated States of Micronesia