Alvin Jacklick

Jacklick (left) with president Jurelang Zedkaia (center) and U.S. ambassador Martha Campbell.

Alvin Jacklick is a Marshallese politician and government minister. In the late 1980s he was elected mayor of Ebeye, at a time when he was described as a "young radical".[1] He was involved in the projects of the Kwajalein Atoll Development Corporation.[2] Jacklick has since been the Speaker of Parliament,[3] and has also been involved with diplomatic relations with Taiwan. He was Foreign Minister from 2000-2001. In 2014 he was one of the outspoken Marshallese senators against the nomination of an ex-Lebanese general as envoy to UNESCO.[4]

References

  1. Fetherling, Doug; Fetherling, George (1 April 1989). Best Canadian essays 1989. Fifth House. p. 404. ISBN 978-0-920079-43-0.
  2. Lansdown, Richard (2006). Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought : an Anthology. University of Hawaii Press. p. 404. ISBN 978-0-8248-3042-7.
  3. "President Ma Meets Marshall Islands Parliament Speaker Alvin Jacklick". Taiwan.gov.tw. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  4. "Marshall Islands UNESCO nomination unconstitutional: Opposition". Australiaplus.com. 11 March 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
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