Historic signing of Fiji – Solomon Islands Maritime boundary agreement
Monday marked a momentous achievement for Fiji and the Solomon Islands as Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama and Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare signed a Maritime...
Forum leaders meet to consolidate Blue Pacific agenda
By Nic Maclellan
For the first time since 2019, presidents and prime ministers from around the region will gather face-to-face in Suva this week, to...
Forum mission questions credibility of New Caledonia referendum
By Nic Maclellan
Last December, the Pacific Islands Forum sent a ministerial mission to New Caledonia, to monitor the conduct of the third referendum...
PACP leaders meet in Suva to finalise new partnership agreement with EU
By Pita Ligaiula
Members of the Pacific ACP subregion met in Fiji Monday on the fringes of the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting to...
Kiribati exit from Pacific Forum ‘out of order’ – former president
Kiribati's sudden withdrawal from the Pacific Islands Forum without wider political discussion by the government is out of order, the country's opposition leader and...
Solomon Islands offers to host next Forum Leaders Meeting
By Pita Ligaiula
Solomon Islands has made its intention known to the Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers Meeting (FMMM) that it wants to host...
Tuvalu asks NZ for more support as sea levels rise
With climate change causing the sea to rise around them, the Pacific island of Tuvalu is calling on New Zealand to provide more support...
Pacific Foreign Ministers declare a climate emergency, set priorities at FFMM 2022
Formal outcomes from the Forum Foreign Ministers, held in Suva on Friday have been released with key collective decisions including a declaration that the...
Kiribati withdraws from Pacific Islands Forum in blow to regional body
The key diplomatic body in the Pacific has been dealt a devastating blow on the eve of its first in-person meeting since the pandemic,...
PNG caretaker PM Marape wins Tari-Pori Open seat for the third time
Papua New Guinea caretaker Prime Minister James Marape becomes the first candidate to be declared in the 2022 National General Election.
Marape was officially declared...
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Forum express concern over unrest in New Caledonia
Outgoing Forum Secretary General, Henry Puna has expressed concern over the unrest in New Caledonia, reflecting on the sensitive issue that has been brewing...
Solomons, PNG win in $1b-plus Pacific play to ward off China
Australia will fund new undersea telecommunications cables for Solomon Islands, provide a $600 million (US$397 million) bailout for Papua New Guinea and spend $400...
New Caledonia unrest: Pro-independence calls for calm ‘to preserve peace’
A group belonging to New Caledonia's pro-independence movement, UNI (Union Nationale pour l'Indépendance), has released a communiqué saying they were “moved by and deplored...