OTICIDE’S TINAI COMPLETES COURSE WITH ASIA-PACIFIC STUDIES

OTICIDE’S Tinai completes course with Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

HONOLULU - Special Agent Samuelu Siatafu of OTICIDE in American Samoa, graduated Nov. 21 (2006) from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies “Advanced Security Cooperation Course” in Honolulu.

Agent Tinai received his diploma from LTG (R) Ed Smith, director of the Center.

Agent Tinai joined 61 other senior military and civilian government leaders from 29 countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region that attended the six-week course to study regional security.

The Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies is a Department of Defense regional study, conference and research center.

The center’s mission is to educate and develop leaders to advance strategic communications and security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region.

Countries represented at the course were: American Samoa, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Canada, chile, Comoros, Fiji, Guam, India, Indonesia, laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Palau, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, United States, and Vietnam.

The Executive Course students discussed national policy, and how the economic, diplomatic, political, cultural and military elements of power affect stability and security of the region as a whole.

To date, the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies has had representatives from 45 countries attend the College and has hosted or co-hosted conferences / seminars, with over 6,891 participants from 66 countries.

The Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies website address is http://www.apcss.org/

For the link to this story at the APCSS site: http://www.apcss.org/core/APCSS%20News/releases/2006/ec06-3.htm