{"id":134041,"date":"2020-02-28T02:31:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T01:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/28\/inspirational-veteran-fiji-diplomat-satya-nandan-lauded-across-pacific\/"},"modified":"2020-02-28T02:31:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T01:31:18","slug":"inspirational-veteran-fiji-diplomat-satya-nandan-lauded-across-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=134041","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Inspirational&#039;: veteran Fiji diplomat Satya Nandan lauded across Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nandan, who has died aged 83, was instrumental in protecting Pacific countries\u2019 access to oceans and fisheriesTributes have flooded in across the Pacific for Satya Nandan, one of the region\u2019s most respected ambassadors who is credited withprotecting the region\u2019s access to ocean resources and fisheries.Satya Nandan, 83, was Fiji\u2019s representative to the United Nations in the early 1970s and chaired the drafting of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). He was instrumental in the introduction of the 320km (200-mile) exclusive economic zone (EEZ) regime, which gave Pacific countries greater control over fishing in their waters. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/28\/inspirational-veteran-fiji-diplomat-satya-nandan-lauded-across-pacific\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Inspirational&#039;: veteran Fiji diplomat Satya Nandan lauded across Pacific<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nandan, who has died aged 83, was instrumental in protecting Pacific countries\u2019 access to oceans and fisheriesTributes have flooded in across the Pacific for Satya Nandan, one of the region\u2019s most respected ambassadors who is credited withprotecting the region\u2019s access to ocean resources and fisheries.Satya Nandan, 83, was Fiji\u2019s representative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}