Category: Pacific Island Forum

Pacific Island Leaders Resolve Leadership Dispute

June 8, 2022
Asia & PacificAustraliaChinaMicronesiaPacific Island ForumWorld
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Several Pacific Island leaders reached an agreement on Tuesday to prevent the region’s major diplomatic group from splintering. This comes as China has been increasing diplomatic efforts in the region. Six Pacific Islands Forum members—Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Fiji, Palau, and the Marshall Islands—met in Fiji on Tuesday to resolve reform…

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Pacific Forum Leaders Apologise to Micronesia After Leadership Split

May 4, 2021
Asia & PacificAustraliaChinaChinese RegimeInternationalMicronesiaPacificPacific Island ForumWorld
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The leaders of several Pacific island nations met to mend fences after Micronesia pulled out of the region’s peak body, the Pacific Island Forum (PIF), in February over the selection of its new secretary-general from the Cook Islands. The political dialogue mechanism called the Forum Troika Plus was set up in March to facilitate open…

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