昨日ブログにあげた、パラオのレメンゲサウ大統領が太平洋諸島フォーラム（以下PIF)総会参加をキャンセルし、日本に来て米国と北朝鮮のミサイル対応の協議をする話。
PIFのテイラー事務局長のコメントがある記事があった。
テイラー事務局長は下記のように述べている。
「太平洋島嶼国には対応する軍事能力はないが、メンバーの大国が（豪州のことであろう）状況をモニタリングしているし、マーシャル諸島のクワジェリンに追跡基地がある事も認識している。パラオで何が起こる可能性があるかも聞いている。」
“As Pacific countries we don’t have the capacity to be prepared in terms of military. But we do know that some of the bigger countries who are members of the Forum are monitoring the situation very closely. We do know of the tracking station in Kwajalein. We’ve heard of what’s possibly happening in Palau.
今回のフォーラム総会では北朝鮮に関するコメントも採択されるであろう。
私は、パラオの便宜置籍船が、北朝鮮への貿易をしていたことをここで敢えて書いておきたい。パラオ政府に政治的な意図がなくても、法執行が緩い島嶼国のあらゆる主権ビジネスは北朝鮮やテロ、そして違法操業に加担していいるのだ。
(MARIANAS VARIETY) - Palau president to miss Forum meeting due to security issues
Category: Pacific/Regional News
05 Sep 2017
APIA (Pacnews) — Security issues in the Northern Pacific have forced Palau’s President Tommy Remengesau not to attend this week’s Forum Leaders Meeting in Samoa.
The recent threat by North Korea to launch four intermediate ballistic missiles near Guam and U.S plans to install radar in the Pacific nation highlighted Palau’s strategic military value in the region.
President Remengesau is traveling to Japan to discuss security issues with the U.S allies on the looming threats posed by North Korea.
Instead, Vice President Raynold Oilouch is representing Palau at the Forum Leaders Meeting.
Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Meg Taylor confirmed that Remengesau will not be attending the meeting in Apia.
When asked about the Pacific preparedness in dealing with security threats, she said the Pacific has no military capabilities to defend itself from North Korea’s threats.
“As Pacific countries we don’t have the capacity to be prepared in terms of military. But we do know that some of the bigger countries who are members of the Forum are monitoring the situation very closely. We do know of the tracking station in Kwajalein. We’ve heard of what’s possibly happening in Palau.
“As a regional grouping I think we can’t be prepared because we haven’t got the resources or the means of militarization to be prepared,” Taylor said.
Forum Deputy Secretary General Cristelle Pratt said across the world, the Pacific islands are witnessing a rise in nationalism, protectionism and an apparent decline in support for multilateralism as well.
“We are seeing potential security risks emerging for the Pacific due to current tensions around the Pacific Rim such as between the U.S. and North Korea.
“Inequality continues to deepen across the globe and in the Pacific too, which potentially gives rise to economic, social and political instability,” Pratt said.
Pacific Islands Association of Non-Governmental Organization board chairwoman Sarah Thomas-Nedegog said they live with the threats from North Korea every day.
“Certainly as a person born in Guam we are the supposed strategic location of the U.S. in the Pacific and sometimes you don’t really know what that means until you get a threat, like North Korea sees us as a great starter for them in their attacks to the U.S.
“We live with that threat every day. There is not an hour that goes by that I don’t think of what can be happening to my island and whatever happens to Guam affects the Pacific.”
The security threats by North Korea is expected to be raised by Forum member states at the leaders meeting.
