{"id":28679,"date":"2021-02-20T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/20\/marginalising-our-own-brothers-and-sisters-the-disrespect-micronesia-has-been-shown-is-a-tragedy-for-the-pacific"},"modified":"2021-02-20T04:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T19:00:12","slug":"marginalising-our-own-brothers-and-sisters-the-disrespect-micronesia-has-been-shown-is-a-tragedy-for-the-pacific-surangel-whipps-jr-president-of-palau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28679","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Marginalising our own brothers and sisters&#8217;: the disrespect Micronesia has been shown is a tragedy for the Pacific | Surangel Whipps Jr, President of Palau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Micronesia had no choice to but to abandon the Pacific Islands Forum after being \u2018thoroughly and publicly disregarded\u2019, the President of Palau writes<\/p>\n<p>What becomes of an organisation when it disregards one-third of its membership? What happens when \u201cwe\u201d stops being inclusive?<\/p>\n<p>As the eldest of four, I have always felt responsible for the safety, security, and well-being of my siblings. In my family, \u201cI\u201d has always been synonymous with \u201cwe\u201d, the collective, being one inclusive family and ensuring no one is left out. This is what I understand to be the Palauan way; this is what I understand to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/02\/zoomed-to-fail-cracks-appear-in-pacific-islands-forum-as-covid-pulls-nations-apart\">the Pacific Way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/20\/marginalising-our-own-brothers-and-sisters-the-disrespect-micronesia-has-been-shown-is-a-tragedy-for-the-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micronesia had no choice to but to abandon the Pacific Islands Forum after being \u2018thoroughly and publicly disregarded\u2019, the President of Palau writesWhat becomes of an organisation when it disregards one-third of its membership? What happens when \u201cwe\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"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":[41,43,436,952,56,874,581,1439,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-fiji","category-micronesia","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-palau","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\/28679","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\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28680,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28679\/revisions\/28680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}