New Flags Flying - Pacific Leaders Remember
Part 11 Kiribati
Significant events since independence
1979 Treaty of Friendship with the United States providing for joint administration of Kanton Islaand and the relinquishing of claims by the United States to 14 of the Line and Phoenix Islands
1983 US Treaty of Friendship ratified by the US Senate
1980s Fisheries agreement with Soviet Union
1991 Teatao Tennaki elected President
1994 Teburoro Tito elected President
1995 Legislation enacted moving the international date line to the east
1998 President Tito re-elected
2003 Anote Tong elected President
2006 Banabans living on the island of Rabi in Fiji call for Banaba to secede from Kiribati and join Fiji
2007 President Anote Tong re-elected.
