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The Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General, Henry Puna has congratulated the Fijian people for exercising their democratic right through 14 December General Election. “I have observed with close interest the conduct of the 2022 General Election in Fiji over the last few days and note the preliminary findings of the Multinational Observer Group last Friday and the declaration of the...

National Federation Party Leader Professor Biman Prasad says the outcome of Fiji's 2022 General Election reflects the will of the people. Prasad highlighted this at a joint press conference with People’s Alliance Leader Sitiveni Rabuka, as they prepare for their next step. He acknowledged everyone that voted for the opposition parties. “We found that people were just great. They welcomed our candidates....

The leader of the kingmaker party in Fiji’s election says he doesn’t support forming a security relationship with China, preferring foreign relations to be closely aligned with Australia and like-minded countries in the Pacific region. Fiji’s Social Democratic Liberal Party, known as SOLDELPA, holds the balance of power after neither of the two major parties won an outright majority in...

As negotiations to secure an ambitious landmark framework to protect and restore nature around the world continue at COP15, several Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have taken a critical step forward to advocate as one for agreed common priorities, including the need for greater means of implementing biodiversity objectives, in SIDS. They have done this through the launch of the...

Japan’s decision to discharge nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean for the next 30 years has been condemned by a Pacific alliance. And the group of community members, academics, legal experts, NGOs and activists is calling on New Zealand and the Pacific to act to stop Japan. Three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant had meltdowns after the earthquake...

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), as the mandated inter-governmental organisation of the Pacific island countries to protect the Pacific environment, has further amplified our one Pacific voice at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) in Montreal Canada. As well as providing support to all the Pacific delegations, and...

Argentines let loose on Sunday and streets across the country became places of celebration after an epic World Cup final in which the national team beat France on penalties. It was the country’s third World Cup title, and the first since 1986. “I’m very happy, we really deserved this. The team suffered quite a bit, but it recovered as time went...

More than a third of the players who took part in the inaugural Oceania Rugby Women’s Combine earlier this year have been selected to showcase their talents in Rugby Australia’s Super W 2023. In September, 20 of the best female players from Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Tonga were exposed to world-class coaching on Australia’s Gold Coast. Participants had been selected...

The Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA) is in no rush to choose the next government as it is being courted by the ruling Fiji First Party (FFP) and the coalition of Peoples Alliance Party (PAP) and the National Federation Party (NFP) to form the next Fijian government. This after the Fijian Elections Office announced the result of the 2022 General...

Four political parties will represent the Fijian voters in Parliament for the next four years after the counting of votes was completed Sunday afternoon. No party has an absolute majority to claim victory in the 2022 General Election, which also means that a coalition is required as it stands. The current arrangements based on the 470,584 votes cast has FijiFirst 26...