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Vanuatu: Security Assistance

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Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
Washington, DC
October 20, 2008


Map and flag of Vanuatu

Background: Multiple waves of colonizers, each speaking a distinct language, migrated to the New Hebrides in the millennia preceding European exploration in the 18th century. This settlement pattern accounts for the complex linguistic diversity found on the archipelago to this day. The British and French, who settled the New Hebrides in the 19th century, agreed in 1906 to an Anglo-French Condominium, which administered the islands until independence in 1980, when the new name of Vanuatu was adopted. (Source: CIA—The World Factbook)

Security Assistance Funding: (Source: 2009 Congressional Budget Justifications for Foreign Operations)

($ in thousands)

Account
 FY 2007
 FY2007
 FY 2008
 FY 2008
 FY2009

 

 Actual
 Supp
 Estimate
 Supp
 Request
IMET
 58
 --
 109
 --
 115

Direct Commercial Sales: (Source: 2007 Section 655 Report)

In FY 2007, the Department of State authorized no exports of defense articles or services to Vanuatu.



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