{"id":62615,"date":"2024-03-17T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/17\/tuvalu-prime-minister-calls-on-australia-for-sovereignty-guarantees-over-treaty"},"modified":"2024-03-17T04:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T19:00:14","slug":"tuvalu-prime-minister-calls-on-australia-for-sovereignty-guarantees-over-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62615","title":{"rendered":"Tuvalu prime minister calls on Australia for sovereignty \u2018guarantees\u2019 over treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feleti Teo tells the Guardian Tuvaluans fear last year\u2019s treaty may give Australia too much say over the Pacific nation\u2019s security<\/p>\n<p>Tuvalu\u2019s new prime minister, Feleti Teo, wants \u201cguarantees\u201d from Canberra that a landmark treaty with Australia will not undermine his country\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Teo, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/26\/tuvalu-election-feleti-teo-named-pm-prime-minister-kausea-natano\">was appointed leader last month<\/a>, told the Guardian a controversial security clause in 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\">Falepili Union treaty<\/a> has led to fears among Tuvaluans that Australia \u201cmight encroach on Tuvalu\u2019s sovereignty\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/17\/tuvalu-prime-minister-calls-on-australia-for-sovereignty-guarantees-over-treaty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feleti Teo tells the Guardian Tuvaluans fear last year\u2019s treaty may give Australia too much say over the Pacific nation\u2019s securityTuvalu\u2019s new prime minister, Feleti Teo, wants \u201cguarantees\u201d from Canberra that a landmark treaty with Australia will not u&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4040,"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":[41,43,50,2331,874,563,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-climate-crisis","category-pacific-islands","category-tuvalu","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\/62615","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\/4040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62616,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62615\/revisions\/62616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}