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‘A historic and important achievement for indigenous people’
Editor’s Note: Gov. Ralph DLG Torres and Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios issues the following statement on the Senate confirmation of Rep. Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior:
“On behalf of the people of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, we congratulate Rep. Haaland on her confirmation as our nation’s Secretary of the Interior. As a woman of indigenous descent, her appointment is a historic and important achievement for indigenous people all over the country. She has been an advocate of indigenous rights and natural resource protection, and we support her as she assumes this important Cabinet position in our federal government. We look forward to working with her and the Office of Insular Affairs on discussing issues and promoting policies that are important to the CNMI and the territories. It is our collective hope that we can work for the betterment of the people of our entire nation and our Commonwealth here in the Pacific.”
Ralph DLG Torres is governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. and Arnold I. Palacios is the lieutenant governor.
