{"id":2636,"date":"2012-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.iaru-r2.org\/iaru-r2-meets-arubas-prime-minister\/"},"modified":"2012-09-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T22:00:00","slug":"iaru-r2-meets-arubas-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/iaru-r2-meets-arubas-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"<span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">R2<\/span> meets Aruba\u2019s Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/aruba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1438\" title=\"aruba\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/aruba-150x98.jpg\" alt width=\"150\" height=\"98\"><\/a>At the request of the Aruba Amateur Radio Club (<span class=\"caps\">AARC<\/span>), <span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span> member society, representatives from <span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span> Region 2&nbsp;meet on September 25<sup class=\"ordinal\">th<\/sup> with His Excellency Mr. Mike Eman, Prime Minister of Aruba, to request his support in solving a&nbsp;decade long problem: while foreigners visiting Aruba can obtain reciprocal license in an expedite manner, nationals of Aruba can\u2019t present exams and therefore can\u2019t be licensed.&nbsp;This unusual situation, that seems to be a&nbsp;minor legal issue, has drastically impede the growth of Amateur Radio in Aruba for years. Prime Minister Eman showed interest in the case and offered to follow up the legal arguments that <span class=\"caps\">AARC<\/span> is sending to various government instances.<\/p>\n<p>The group of also meet separately with Mr. Paul Croes, Chairman of Parliament of Aruba and with Senator Andin C. G. Bikker.&nbsp;Both of them kindly offered to review this matter.<\/p>\n<p>On the picture, left to right, Prime Minister Mike Eman, <span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span> Region 2&nbsp;Secretary Ramon Santoyo V. <span class=\"caps\">XE1KK<\/span>, <span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span> Region 2&nbsp;Treasurer and Area E&nbsp;Director, that includes Aruba, Noel E. Donawa <span class=\"caps\">9Y4X<\/span> and <span class=\"caps\">AARC<\/span> President Randy Geerman <span class=\"caps\">P43W<\/span>.&nbsp;Also present in the meetings was <span class=\"caps\">AARC<\/span> Vice-Presidente Rubin Ponson <span class=\"caps\">P43CP<\/span> who took this picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the request of the Aruba Amateur Radio Club (<span class=\"caps\">AARC<\/span>), <span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span> member society, representatives from <span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span> Region 2&nbsp;meet on September 25<sup class=\"ordinal\">th<\/sup> with His Excellency Mr. Mike Eman, Prime Minister of Aruba, to request his support in solving a&nbsp;decade long problem: while foreigners visiting Aruba can obtain reciprocal license in an expedite manner, nationals of&nbsp;Aruba&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}