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Up for sale a RARE! "1st Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands" Peter Kenilorea Hand Signed Newspaper Article. 

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Sir

Peter Kenilorea KBE (23 May 1943 – 24 February 2016) was a Solomon Islander politician, officially styled The

Rt Hon. Sir Peter Kenilorea as a member of the Privy

Council of the United Kingdom. He was the first Prime Minister of an

independent Solomon Islands, from 1978-81, and also served a second term from

1984-86. Kenilorea was born in Takataka village on Malaita island, of 'Are'are ethnicity. He was trained as a teacher for

the South Seas Evangelical

Church and a co-founder of the Solomon

Islands Christian Association. As a young man he helped to found

the Solomon Islands United

Party. In the 1973 general

elections he ran in the 'Are'are constituency,

losing to David

Kausimae. By the time of the 1976

elections the constituency was split and Kenilorea was elected

to Parliament in the East 'Are'are constituency.

He became Chief Minister of the Solomon Islands in the same year and led the

country to independence from Britain in 1978. He then served as the first Prime

Minister of the Solomon Islands until 1981, and again from 1984

to 1986. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1988 to 1989 and from

1990 to 1993. Following fighting between the Malaita Eagle Force and

the Isatabu Freedom Movement, Kenilorea was, along with Paul Tovua, co-chairman of the peace talks, and he became

Chairman of the eight-member Peace Monitoring Council, which was created in

August 2000. In the Seventh Parliament, which sat from 2001 to 2005, he

was Speaker of Parliament. He

was a candidate for the post of Governor-General in

mid-June 2004, but he received only 8 of 41 votes in Parliament, placing second

behind Nathaniel Waena, who

received 27 votes.[4] Following the 2006 general

election, he was re-elected as Speaker of Parliament without

opposition in April 2006. He held the position until 2010. He

subsequently sought to return to Parliament, and was an unsuccessful candidate

in a by-election in East

'Are'are in August 2012. He died on 24 February 2016 of natural causes. Kenilorea's

son Peter Kenilorea Jr. was

elected a member of parliament in April 2019.

"P.M. Solomon Islands" Peter Kenilorea Hand Signed Newspaper Article

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