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Office of the President :: Republic of the Marshall Islands
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- Germany purchased the Marshall Islands from Spain in 1899. Japan seized the Islands in 1914, governing them under a League of Nations mandate until the U.S. Navy occupied them in 1945. In 1947, the islands became part of the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under United Nations trusteeship. The Constitution of the Marshall Islands entered into force on May 1, 1979, at which time the parliament chose Amata Kabua to be the country’s first president. In 1983, the Marshall Islands signed a Compact of Free Association with the United States, which entered into force in 1986. Under the Compact, the country is fully sovereign in domestic and foreign affairs, but gives responsibility for defense to the United States. The “first” Compact of Free Association with the United States expired in 2000, after which a new agreement was negotiated and signed on May 1, 2004, coincidentally, the day the people of the Marshall Islands were celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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