Vanuatu branch of The Scout Association

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Scouting in Vanuatu (locally Ni Vanuatu Scout) is currently a branch of the Scout Association of the United Kingdom covering Republic of Vanuatu. They are not, as yet, members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. They are active in the Asia-Pacific Region Scouting activities. Two Scouts participated in the 19th World Jamboree in Chile in December 1998. [1] Scouting in Vanuatu also gets help from members of Scouts Australia and Vanuatu Scouts will be attended the 2007 Australian Scout Jamboree. [2]

Before independance in 1980 there were two Scouts organisations, one attached to Scouts de France and the other to the UK Scout Association. They merged in 1999. [3]

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Members of the Asia-Pacific Scout Region

Full members: Australia | Bangladesh | Bhutan | Brunei | Republic of China (Taiwan) | Fiji | Hong Kong | India | Indonesia | Japan | Kiribati | South Korea | Malaysia | Maldives | Mongolia | Nepal | New Zealand | Pakistan | Papua New Guinea | Philippines | Singapore | Sri Lanka | Thailand
Associate members: Macau | French Polynesia
Potential members: Afghanistan | Cambodia | East Timor | Nauru | Samoa | Solomon Islands | Tonga | Tuvalu | Vanuatu | Vietnam
Countries without Scouting: People's Republic of China (mainland) | North Korea | Laos | Myanmar