Simina meets RADM Joshua Lasky on the Yap Defense Site Project (release dated 12 Aug).

What happened

The meeting with Rear Admiral Joshua Lasky and the new US chargé d’affaires, Andrew Wylie, came after Admiral Paparo’s June letter rejecting the FSM’s compensation demand. The release’s headline says both sides reaffirmed cooperation, but its text records only Simina reaffirming the FSM’s commitment to work with Yap State and the United States.