experience our meeting these past two days.

So provision has been made now

for this in the agreement or the proposed 177 that the two governments are
discussing and we are glad to know that they will be pursuing this matter.

I was

very encouraged

to hear you say that you welcome the people taking

these reports and sharing them, showing them to whoever they wish to seek
further advice and counsel.

I

we can all grow and benefit.

think that that is a healthy situation and

And I would hope that any further research or

results or information, whether pro or con, would also be brought and we
would be able to further discuss, so that we would all better understand
what’s involved.

deBrum:

1’11 give everyone an opportunity to say a few words.

Marshallese:

I am very grateful for having been here and for the report

that you brought and explained

in great detail.

I feel better equipped to

share as much as I have gained from it with my people.

And I thank you for

enabling me to do this by providing this kind of information.
,

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help to me and my people and

deBrum:

~:

I

This is a

thank you most sincerely.

Do you want to say a few words?

Well, thank you Mr. Chief Secretary and thank all of you.

appreciate this opportunity

We again

and your hospitality and especially the time

that you have taken to come and very patiently listen to us and absorb what
we have been able to pass to you on a very difficult subject.
to continue this discussion,

We want

this exchange so long as you find it useful

and we welcome your suggestions about questions that still need to be
answered about things you would like to hear more from us about.
taken a number of notes on those and
our attention.

I

I assure

We have

you that they will receive

know that I speak for my associates here when I say we

have been pleased and greatly impressed.

We respect greatly the efforts

that you have made and the degree to which you have absorbed so much
information in such a short time.

Your questions and your comments will

make us very much better prepared to visit your communities at a later
date.

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