{"id":15149,"date":"2020-02-28T11:14:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T02:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/28\/inspirational-veteran-fiji-diplomat-satya-nandan-lauded-across-pacific"},"modified":"2020-02-28T11:14:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T02:14:32","slug":"a-titan-tributes-flow-for-fiji-diplomat-instrumental-in-protecting-pacific-nations-fisheries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15149","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A titan&#8217;: tributes flow for Fiji diplomat instrumental in protecting Pacific nations&#8217; fisheries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satya Nandan, who has died aged 83, was first secretary-general of International Seabed Authority<\/p>\n<p>Tributes have flooded in across the Pacific for Satya Nandan, one of the region\u2019s most respected ambassadors who is credited withprotecting the region\u2019s access to ocean resources and fisheries.<\/p>\n<p>Satya Nandan, 83, was Fiji\u2019s representative to the United Nations in the early 1970s and chaired the drafting of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). He was instrumental in the introduction of the 320km (200-mile) exclusive economic zone (EEZ) regime, which gave Pacific countries greater control over fishing in their waters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/28\/inspirational-veteran-fiji-diplomat-satya-nandan-lauded-across-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satya Nandan, who has died aged 83, was first secretary-general of International Seabed AuthorityTributes have flooded in across the Pacific for Satya Nandan, one of the region\u2019s most respected ambassadors who is credited withprotecting the region\u2019s ac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1058,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15150,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149\/revisions\/15150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}