INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS BY THE HEAD OF STATE, LE AO MAMALU O LE MALO, LE AFIOGA TUIMALEALIIFANO VAALETO’A SUALAUVI II. June 01 2021 Residence Matamatanonofo, Falelatai.
Fellow citizens and all the people of Samoa
It gives me great pleasure on this new day to greet all the people of Samoa, living in the country and abroad, and to invite you all to the virtual commemoration of the 59th independence anniversary of our country. June the 1st is when we first unfurled the tricolour; the flag of independence of the first independent state in the Pacific region. We are privileged to have reached this milestone in our lifetime and we attribute this to our almighty God, the foundation of our government and country
This is the link to the full adddress.
Note: The HoS refers to Samoa being the first independent state in the Pacific Region. This would be contested by Tonga. It signed a Treaty of Friendship with Britain in 1901 but never gave up its independence.
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