ICOMOS Pasifika Executive Board Elected
ICOMOS Pasifika Media Release
22 July 2007
Election of the first Executive Board of ICOMOS Pasifika
After many years of planning and lobbying by heritage professionals in Australia and the Pacific, the first ICOMOS Pasifika Executive Board was elected at the Pacific Islands World Heritage Workshop on 22 February, 2007 at Waitetoko Marae, Turangi, New Zealand at the end of the last working session of the Workshop.
ICOMOS Pasifika is the name for the International Scientific Committee of the Pacific Islands of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
Pacific Islands Museums Association Chair Ms Faustina Rehuher was given the floor by the Chairman of the Workshop, Mr Paul Green, to conduct the election of the first Executive Board of ICOMOS Pasifika. Before conducting the elections Ms Rehuher asked Ms Kristal Buckley, Vice-President of ICOMOS International, to speak on the benefits of having a Pacific ICOMOS committee and the need to elect its first board so it could begin operations. The following people were elected unanimously:
- President – Mr Rufino Mauricio (Secretary General, Federated States of Micronesia National Commission for UNESCO, located in Pohnpei State)
- 1st Vice President – Mr Christophe Sand (Head, Department of Archaeology, New Caledonia)
- 2nd Vice President – Ms Faustina K. Rehuher (Director, Belau National Museum, Palau)
- Secretary – Mr Richard Ariihau Tuheiava (Chairman "Na-Papa-e-Va'u" Raiatea, Tahiti)
- Treasurer – Adi Meretui Ratunabuabua (Principal Cultural Development Officer, Department of Culture & Heritage, Fiji)
After his election, the President, Dr Rufino Mauricio, expressed his thanks to the meeting and pledged to do his best to achieve the aims of ICOMOS Pasifika.
ICOMOS Pasifika’s First Board Meeting
The Executive Board held its first meetings at the 2007 Australia ICOMOS National Conference in Cairns from 19-21 July. At these meetings the Board discussed their vision, aims, and a program of activities that all form the Strategic Workplan 2007-10. ICOMOS Pasifika signed an MOU with PIMA which sets out how the two organisations will work together using the one Secretariat based in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
ICOMOS Pasifika wishes to thank Australia ICOMOS for its very generous sponsorship of Board Members and Secretary General to attend the conference, without which this meeting could not have taken place.
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