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Vanuatu Prime Minister, Ishmael Kalsakau, says Pacific security is about the security of the Pacific peoples and their way of life as identified by Forum Leaders in the Boe Declaration. Kalsakau said this reaffirms climate change as the single greatest threat to regional security. The PM was speaking at the opening of the Pacific Fusion headquarters in Port Vila on Tuesday,...

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wednesday welcomed Tuvalu's Foreign Minister, Simon Kofe, to Adelaide. “I was delighted to meet Minister Kofe again, after my visit to Tuvalu in April," Wong said. Minister Kofe's visit was an opportunity to build on Australia and Tuvalu's strong development and defence cooperation, people-to-people ties and discuss our shared aspiration for a safe, prosperous and resilient Blue...

The first Archipelagic Island States Forum Secretariat (AIS Forum) Senior Officials Meeting convened Wednesday by the Fiji Government builds the momentum of innovative work in climate change adaptation and mitigation, oceans preservations and sustainable management, ocean resources. For the first time the government representatives from 47 countries have converged in Fiji to participate in the Seventh SOM of the AIS...

Troops from Fiji, Tonga and France will join U.S Marines and Japanese and Australian soldiers training in the Australian state of Queensland this month and next. Southern Jackaroo, an annual exercise between Marine Rotational Force — Darwin and the Japanese and Australian armies, runs 15 June to 15 July at the Townsville Field Training Area in northeast Australia, Major Matthew...

On World Ocean Day, we are highlighting the importance of the ‘blue economy’ in the Pacific Islands, as well as the regional innovators EIT Climate-KIC is supporting. Oceans and the marine economy are often associated with traditional activities such as fishing or transport. However, the emergence of a more complex ‘blue economy’ shows that oceans’ contribution to the global economy...

The fact that the Swire Shipping Fijian Drua has already defeated the mighty Crusaders this year, gives the team confidence. This is according to head coach Mick Byrne ahead of their Super Rugby Pacific quarter-final match. Last season the Fijian side lost 61-3 at Orangetheory Stadium in Christchurch but they enter this territory with renewed confidence after beating the defending champions...

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka met in Wellington Wednesday, reaffirming the strength and spirit of New Zealand and Fiji’s relationship, as outlined in the Duavata Relationship Statement of Partnership. “New Zealand and Fiji are connected by a kinship forged in Pacific culture, identity and interests, founded on our long history, friendship, and mutual...

Turkiye and Australia will vie for the support of Western Europe, North America and New Zealand in their bids to host the 2026 climate talks Turkiye has declared its desire to host the Cop31 climate talks in 2026, kick-starting a competition with a joint bid by Australia and a yet-to-be-determined Pacific island nation. At the annual Bonn climate talks in Germany,...

Forum experts will meet with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in virtual mode in early June, to discuss the planned discharge of treated nuclear wastewater from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. The session with the IAEA experts comes after Pacific Islands Forum and Japan scientific experts met for a fifth time on 1 June 2023 to further discuss a...

Fiji's prime minister was welcomed to the New Zealand Parliament on Wednesday morning. Sitiveni Rabuka is on his first official trip to Aotearoa since being elected in December. At a media briefing, the New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins expressed thanks for the warm and open discussions with Rabuka. “I want to take this opportunity to publicly thank Fiji for their defence...