The following can be attributed to Speaker Ned Price:
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman today met with Tupou VI, King of Tonga, in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, to celebrate 50 years of bilateral relations between the United States and Tonga. The Deputy Secretary and King Tupou VI discussed Tonga’s efforts to recover from the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption and tsunami that devastated the nation in January, which the United States has provided $2.6 million to support. Deputy Secretary Sherman highlighted the US commitment to better engagement with Tonga, including Vice President Harris’ announcement at the Pacific Islands Forum in July that the US will work to open an embassy in Nuku’alofa .
