Fiji and NZ to collaborate further on issues of common interest
Fiji and New Zealand will continue to collaborate further on issues of common interest.
Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Sitiveni Rabuka made these...
Fiji PM Sitiveni Rabuka says New Zealand has ‘lion’s share’ of trade, talks PACER...
Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says New Zealand currently receives the “lion’s share” of trade between the countries - something he wants to dramatically...
Fiji reconsiders security ties with China amid Pacific tensions
Fiji’s leader indicated Wednesday his nation is reconsidering its security ties with China at a time that geopolitical tensions in the Pacific are rising.
Prime...
Vanuatu PM: climate change is greatest threat to regional security
Vanuatu Prime Minister, Ishmael Kalsakau, says Pacific security is about the security of the Pacific peoples and their way of life as identified by...
Fiji hosts first Archipelagic Island States Forum
The first Archipelagic Island States Forum Secretariat (AIS Forum) Senior Officials Meeting convened Wednesday by the Fiji Government builds the momentum of innovative work...
Former ruling FijiFirst Party faces deregistration
The suspended former ruling FijiFirst Party has been given a strict deadline of 15 June to submit its audited financial accounts.
Failure to comply with...
Minister says FLNKS willing to discuss changes to election rolls
New Caledonia's pro-independence parties are prepared to negotiate changes to the provincial electoral rolls, according to the French interior minister Gerald Darmanin.
On his second...
Sustainability of Pacific fisheries is compromised by the impacts of climate change: Forum Chair
By Pita Ligaiula in Seoul
Forum Chair and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown says the sustainability of Pacific fisheries is compromised by the...
Solomon Islands distance itself from Korea – Pacific Islands Forum Summit Declaration
Solomon Islands expressed reservations on an element of the outcome Declaration of the Korea-Pacific Islands Forum Summit in particular the reference to competing Strategy...
North Korea Nuclear programme direct threat to international peace and security
By Pita Ligaiula in Seoul
The Korea – Pacific Islands Summit shares the view that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) nuclear and...
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UNODC-PINA launch regional initiative to strengthen anti-corruption journalism in the Pacific
The Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today signed an agreement to implement the Journalism for...
PNG Parliament must now deal with Bougainville referendum result with respect, responsibility and unity:...
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Hon. James Marape has called on the National Parliament to deal with the 2019 Bougainville Referendum result with maturity,...
Pacific leaders say decolonisation remains unfinished decades after nuclear testing
Decades after nuclear testing ended across the Pacific, regional leaders and advocates say many of the issues that fueled anti-nuclear and independence movements remain...