Kiribati–United States relations

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Following its independence in 1979, Kiribati signed a treaty of friendship with the United States.{{citation

|author1=Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs

|title=Background Note: Kiribati

|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1836.htm

|access-date=2009-08-06

|date=May 2009

|work=United States Department of State website

|quote=Relations between Kiribati and the United States are excellent.}} The United States Department of State characterizes U.S.–Kiribati relations as "excellent", {{As of|2009|lc=on}}. Diplomatic relations are conducted by the I-Kiribati Ambassador to the United States. The United States has no consular or diplomatic facilities in the country. Officers of the American Embassy in Suva, Fiji, are concurrently accredited to Kiribati and make periodic visits. The U.S. Peace Corps, an independent United States federal agency, had maintained a program in Kiribati since 1967. However, the Corps announced plans to pull out of Kiribati in November 2008 after 35 years of working in the country.{{cite news|first=Batiri|last=Bataua|title=Peace Corps To Quit Kiribati|url=http://www.pacificmagazine.net/news/2008/07/03/peace-corps-to-quit-kiribati|work=Pacific Magazine|date=3 July 2008|access-date=2 July 2008}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Michael Koffman, the Peace Corps Country Director for Kiribati, cited the frequently cancelled and erratic air service in the country as the main reason the Peace Corps was leaving Kiribati.

In 2023, the United States announced plans to open up an embassy in Kiribati, as part of a larger regional push to strengthen ties in the Pacific.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/03/us-set-to-open-tonga-embassy-in-may-as-pacific-push-ramps-up |lang=en-GB |date=May 2, 2023 |accessdate=May 2, 2023 |work=The Guardian |title=US set to open Tonga embassy in May as Pacific push ramps up}}

Principal U.S. Embassy Officials include:

• US Ambassador – Marie C. Damour (since 2022).{{Cite web |last=Suva |first=U. S. Embassy |date=December 24, 2022 |title=Ambassador |url=https://fj.usembassy.gov/ambassador/ |access-date=April 30, 2024 |website=U.S. Embassy in Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu |language=en-US}}

The U.S. Embassy responsible for Kiribati is located in Suva, Republic of the Fiji Islands.

Principal Kiribati Officials include:

• Permanent Representative of Kiribati to the United Nations – Teburoro Tito

The Kiribati Permanent Mission to the UN serves as the Embassy in the United States.

• Foreign relations of the United States
• Foreign relations of Kiribati
• List of ambassadors of Kiribati to the United States

• {{cite web

| url = http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2012/03/201203202476.html

| title = Secretary Clinton on Amelia Earhart

| date = 20 March 2012

| quote = I especially want to welcome Tessie Lambourne, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Immigration of the Republic of Kiribati. [She]...and her husband David...traveled three days to get here for this wonderful event. (Applause.)

| access-date = 2013-06-08

}}

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• [https://history.state.gov/countries/kiribati History of Kiribati - U.S. relations]

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