Kalkot Mataskelekele [SEP] position held
Kalkot Mataskelekele
Kalkot Mataskelekele Mauliliu (born 24 April 1949) was a Vanuatuan politician who served as the President of Vanuatu from 16 August 2004 to 16 August 2009.
Biography.
He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne the University of Papua New Guinea. He is a lawyer from the national capital, Port Vila, and is the first Head of State of Vanuatu to have a university degree. Mataskelekele had previously served as Vanuatu's first indigenous Solicitor General and a former Supreme Court justice.
He was elected
, Van Lierop became the first chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States, a position which he held until 1994; he emphasised the importance of the fight against climate change, to which Small Island Developing States are particularly vulnerable.
This has remained Vanuatu's emphasis to this day. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly in September 2008, ni-Vanuatu President Kalkot Mataskelekele stated:
Continued support for West Papua.
Vanuatu in the 2000s and 2010s has not entirely ceased to promote the cause of decolonisation. In September