The leaders will also have an opportunity to be onboard the United States Navy Seventh Fleet Command Ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC19) which called port to Palau yesterday for a four- day visit and humanitarian mission.
The leaders and representatives of five nations will also be gracing Palau’s International Year of Biodiversity celebration on July 29.
Federated States of Micronesia President Emanuel Mori, President Johnson Toribiong and Republic of the Marshall Islands President Jurelang Zedkaia will participate in the summit.
Representatives from Kiribati and Nauru will join the summit which will be hosted in Palau from July 30 to 31.
The presidents and representatives will begin arriving in Palau on the night of July 27 and 28.
The summit proper will begin on Friday and Saturday.
The summit will be concluded with a signing of a joint communiqué on July 31.
Kiribati, like the four other nations has few natural resources and relies mostly on fishing and the sale of fishing rights.
Nauru’s only economically significant natural resources are phosphates and fisheries particularly for tuna.
The presidents’ summit involves heads of state from the three Micronesian area nations.
Preparations are underway for the meeting which will also be concluded a day before the Micronesian Games. The four leaders and a representative from Nauru will be the special guests of honors of Palau when the games officially opens on August 1.
The guest leaders will then fly together to Vanuatu for the Pacific Islands Forum.
