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Viewing cable 08KOLONIA150, CONFIDENCE EBBS IN THE MORI ADMINISTRATION - LEADERSHIP

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08KOLONIA150 2008-09-26 04:30 2011-08-30 01:44 CONFIDENTIAL Embassy Kolonia
VZCZCXRO2020
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DE RUEHKN #0150/01 2700430
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
R 260430Z SEP 08
FM AMEMBASSY KOLONIA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 2125
INFO RHMFISS/CDR USPACOM HONOLULU HI
RUEHKN/AMEMBASSY KOLONIA 2481
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 KOLONIA 000150 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL:  9/26/2018 
TAGS: PGOV PREL CH FM
SUBJECT: CONFIDENCE EBBS IN THE MORI ADMINISTRATION - LEADERSHIP 
GROWS ERRATIC 
 
CLASSIFIED BY: Miriam K. Hughes, Ambassador, Amembassy Kolonia, 
State. 
REASON: 1.4 (b), (d) 
 
 
 
1.  (C)  The administration of Federated States of Micronesia 
(FSM) President Emanuel Mori is increasingly perceived within 
the FSM as secretive and ensnared within the narrow interests of 
cohorts from the President's home state of Chuuk.  Mori, who is 
reserved by nature, rarely addresses the FSM Congress, which 
elected him, or the Micronesian people.  He appears to rely upon 
a close circle of advisers, who are all trusted colleagues from 
Chuuk, including Chief of Staff Kasio Mida, Attorney General 
Maketo Robert, and SBOC Director Fabian Nimea. 
 
2.  (SBU)  Nimea is a young and relatively inexperienced 
appointee who heads an unwieldy cabinet entity created by Mori, 
which agglomerates Statistics, Budget, Overseas Assistance and 
Compact Management in one sprawling, rudderless office.  Under 
consideration by the FSM Congress is a bill to disaggregate 
SBOC, which would return budgetary responsibility to the 
Department of Finance and attach economic planning to the 
Department of Resources and Development.  The U.S. Department of 
the Interior attributes poor administration of the U.S.-FSM 
Amended Compact in part to the dysfunction of SBOC. 
 
3.  (C) The unraveling of a higher minded national agenda and 
commitment to reform, which Mori proposed with eloquence at his 
inauguration in July 2007, appears to have begun last February 
when Mori appointed Maketo Robert (Chuuk) as Attorney General 
(AG).  Robert had already been suspended from practice before 
the FSM national bar owing to misconduct as a lawyer in a Chuuk 
land dispute case, in which Robert allegedly attempted to 
represent both sides.  The appointment of Robert, who has a 
reputation for consorting with Chuukese criminals, prompted 
erstwhile supporters of Mori to predict that the President's 
ability to lead and to deal with a powerful FSM Congress would 
slide down hill. 
 
4.  (C)  Knowledgeable observers have alternatively perceived 
Mori as capitulating to powerful Chuukese demands and/or as 
deviously repaying political debts that enabled him to 
unexpectedly attain the Presidency.  "The Congress now has the 
President over a barrel," Chuuk financial reformer Gillian Doone 
(protect) commented shortly after the Congress confirmed the 
nomination of AG Robert.  In fact, the President's judgment and 
ability to lead appear to show impairment.  Mori's hearing 
handicap (the President is partially deaf) may contribute to an 
impression of disorientation.  Vice President Alik Alik (Kosrae 
State) has maintained a discreet distance, almost to the point 
of invisibility.  Within the Cabinet, schisms are apparent 
between the Chuukese, who are close to the President, and the 
Pohnpeians, such as Resources and Development Secretary Peter 
Christian, who travels frequently to China and appears to 
operate and make deals with virtual autonomy. 
 
5.  (C)  Within the Department of Justice that AG Robert heads, 
three of a total staff of six  attorneys have resigned, quietly 
citing a pattern of corrupt practices.  Former Assistant 
Attorney General and Chief Litigator Kembo Mida, who is the son 
of the President's Chief of Staff and a graduate of the 
University of Michigan law school, claims that Robert 
consistently shelves all cases pertaining to alleged criminal 
activities in Chuuk,  and he will keep them on hold 
indefinitely.  Mida believes President Mori is complicit. 
Another attorney, who is a highly regarded American, also 
recently resigned before the expiration of her contract.  She 
described a series of questionable practices, including a closed 
meeting in which Mori angrily dismissed all legal arguments 
against the establishment of a qualified insurance registry in 
the FSM.  "I don't care about the legal loopholes," Mori 
supposedly said, signing documents that the American had urged 
him to avoid. 
 
6.  (C)  Other decisions by Mori reflect similarly erratic 
judgment, naivety and/or bad advice from his advisors, including 
Presidential priorities to: 
 
-- Establish submarine fiber optic cable (SFOC) linkages to all 
four FSM states.  Mori endorsed the diversion of $55 million USD 
from U.S. Compact infrastructure funds to extend a SFOC 
telecommunications network from a future Pohnpei project, which 
has not yet begun, to the three less developed FSM states, all 
of which lack substantial Internet subscribers and computers. 
Mori supported the SFOC notion as the FSM's sole initiative and 
resolution at the annual Compact Joint Economic Management 
Committee (JEMCO) meeting in Washington in August.  When U.S. 
JEMCO members objected on grounds that Compact infrastructure 
grants are intended to build schools, roads and health 
facilities, the Micronesians withdrew their resolution. 
However, the Micronesians indicated they may turn to another 
 
KOLONIA 00000150  002 OF 002 
 
 
undisclosed country to obtain a low interest loan. 
 
-- Decentralize Micronesian passport processing, including 
releasing stocks of blank FSM passport books to the four FSM 
states and diplomatic missions in Guam, Hawaii and Washington. 
In response to strong objections from the U.S., the FSM Congress 
and state legislators, Mori agreed to put this legislative 
proposal on hold pending further analysis.  However, he went so 
far as to endorse a $800,000 USD proposal from the 3-M Company. 
Under pressure, he reluctantly acknowledged that the fraud 
vulnerabilities inherent in localized production of passports 
could ignite U.S. border security concerns that would jeopardize 
the Micronesians' visa-free travel privileges under the Compact. 
 
-- Shut down Caroline Islands Air (CIA), which provides the only 
air transport service to the outer islands of Pohnpei and Chuuk. 
 Mori stated he did not like the high fuel consumption of CIA's 
small Australian model planes, and he would prefer to buy new 
airplanes from China.  The FSM Congress unanimously overrode the 
President's veto of a CIA fuel subsidy in order to try to 
restore CIA operations and ensure transportation for officials 
and the people of the outer islands.  In the meantime, the Mori 
administration has introduced an alternative bill to create a 
new Micronesian airline company. 
 
-- Hire a foreign company to manage FSM airspace in order to 
raise additional revenue.  In response to Mori's inquiry about 
this idea, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has 
prepared a letter that reminds the President of FAA 
responsibility to provide airspace management services under 
terms of the Compact that are vital for air transport safety. 
 
-- Reform the anarchic and bankrupt state of Chuuk.  Mori 
repeatedly stated that he would bank his own political career on 
his intention to restore fiscal accountability to his home 
state.  In a loosely confederated FSM constitutional system, 
however, the FSM National Government (FSMNG) has little 
authority over the states.  Chuuk's Governor has resisted 
imposition of controls by Mori, eluding major reform and 
exposing the shortcomings of the President's agenda. 
 
7.  (C)  As Mori's frustrations have increased, he has appeared 
less in public and he makes few public addresses.  Rather, his 
Chief of Staff tends to issue politically slanted media releases 
that have diminishing credibility.  State representatives and 
national senators quietly complain about lack of responsiveness 
and communication from the Presidency.  When Mori threatened to 
shut down Micronesia's only Internet chat room, which the 
non-government organization Micronesian Seminar runs, the head 
of the Seminar Father Fran Hezel, took the President to lunch 
and quietly explained that such a measure would be 
unconstitutional. 
 
8.  (C)  Comment.  In a consensus-driven Micronesian culture, 
the strongest accusations against President Mori are uttered 
with caution behind closed doors.  Nevertheless, a quiet but 
growing chorus of critics alleges that he is governing like a 
so-called shady and opportunistic Chuukese politician.  In Yap, 
Mori insisted upon hosting a large reception for an official 
meeting and then refused to pay the bill.  Conservative Yapese 
politicians repeatedly complain about this incident as well as 
about blocked Compact infrastructure projects.  A new 
infrastructure Project Management Unit (PMU), which Mori 
attached to his office, has failed to advance projects to the 
states' satisfaction.  The FSM Congress will consider a measure 
to transfer the PMU back to the Department of Transportation, 
Communication and Infrastructure, which along with the overhaul 
of SBOC, would constitute another swipe at the President's 
executive reorganization plan.  Yapese and Pohnpeians have begun 
to whisper the word 'impeachment.'  However, no FSM President 
has ever been impeached, and nine of the 14 FSM Senators 
represent Chuuk.  An erosion in support by the Chuukese 
delegation could portend problems for Mori's current position 
and his chances for reelection. 
 
9.  (C)  Comment continued.  Barring unforeseen circumstance, 
Mori is likely to remain at the helm of his fragile nation for 
the nearly three remaining years of his term.  In the meantime, 
long-time American residents warn that Mori harbors ambiguous 
feelings and even subtle hostility toward the United States. 
They have advised to "watch what he does and not what he says." 
President Mori is a pious Catholic, who is soft-spoken, 
respectful and eloquent at meetings.  Yet he remains a complex 
personality enigma.  A rough but working balance of power among 
the FSM Congress, the Supreme Court and the quasi-autonomous 
states should serve to keep the President's less grounded 
instincts in check.  However, Australian Embassy colleagues 
share concerns that Mori's erratic performance could portend a 
vulnerability to the enticement of quick fixes from other 
regional powers, as well as a potential for instability in the 
FSM. 
HUGHES