{"id":62210,"date":"2024-02-28T16:58:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T07:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/28\/tuvalu-to-revisit-deal-that-gives-australia-control-of-island-nations-security-agreements"},"modified":"2024-02-28T16:58:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T07:58:32","slug":"tuvalu-to-revisit-deal-that-gives-australia-control-of-island-nations-security-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62210","title":{"rendered":"Tuvalu to revisit deal that gives Australia control of island nation\u2019s security agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming prime minister Feleti Teo has indicated he will review details of the landmark pact that effectively gives Australia veto power over future agreements with other nations<\/p>\n<p>Tuvalu\u2019s new government has questioned the \u201cabsence of transparency\u201d in a security and migration pact the country signed with Australia last November, throwing the landmark deal into doubt.<\/p>\n<p>While the government expressed support for the \u201cbroad principles and objectives\u201d of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/nov\/10\/tuvalu-residency-and-security-treaty-what-is-it-and-why-is-australia-doing-it\">Tuvalu-Australia Falepili Union<\/a> in a \u201cstatement of priorities\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Simon_Kofe\">posted to X<\/a> by member of parliament Simon Kofe, it also acknowledged \u201cthe absence of transparency and consultations in socializing and informing the public in Tuvalu of such an important and groundbreaking initiative\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/28\/tuvalu-to-revisit-deal-that-gives-australia-control-of-island-nations-security-agreements\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming prime minister Feleti Teo has indicated he will review details of the landmark pact that effectively gives Australia veto power over future agreements with other nationsTuvalu\u2019s new government has questioned the \u201cabsence of transparency\u201d in a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3065,"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":[41,43,874,563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-pacific-islands","category-tuvalu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62210","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\/3065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62211,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62210\/revisions\/62211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}