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PIF leaders lament loss of Pacific unity

Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong has joined calls urging Micronesian breakaway nation Kiribati to return to the Pacific Islands Forum.

AAP · Jul 12, 2022

Pacific summit: Suva near to bursting as PIF meeting turns Fiji’s pandemic bust to boom

Everybody in the Fijian capital is run off their feet as delegates converge for the Pacific Islands Forum and give a glimpse of the good times again

The Guardian - AU · Jul 11, 2022

Prime Minister pitches to restore Australia's climate reputation at Sydney Energy Forum ahead of Pacific Islands Forum

Anthony Albanese will tell the Sydney Energy Forum that Australia is ambitious about helping the world reduce carbon emissions and wants to use its research and engineering capacity to help develop more clean energy technologies.

ABC News · Jul 11, 2022

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Pacific Islands Forum: Ardern says total membership ‘critical’ as PIF shaken by Kiribati’s exit

New Zealand prime minister says leaders had been trying to persuade Kiribati not to withdraw from the forum

The Guardian - AU · Jul 11, 2022

Pacific islands summit begins amid US-China battle for influence

Key summit comes as region grapples with the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and US-China rivalry.

Al Jazeera · Jul 11, 2022

Kiribati's shock withdrawal overshadows Pacific leaders meeting

The withdrawal of the remote Pacific island nation of Kiribati from the region's key diplomatic group has overshadowed the Pacific Islands Forum as leaders arrive in Fiji for the first in-person meeting in two years.

Reuters · Jul 11, 2022

Kiribati announces withdrawal from Pacific Islands Forum on eve of leaders' meeting

Kiribati has announced it will push ahead with its withdrawal from the Pacific Islands Forum, delivering a damaging blow to the regional body on the eve of its most important meeting in years.

ABC News · Jul 10, 2022

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Climate stance 'welcomed' at Pacific forum

Australia's Pacific Minister says the government's increased climate change targets have been welcomed by nations in the region ahead of a crucial summit.

AAP · Jul 10, 2022

Kiribati withdrawal rocks Pacific forum

As Prime Minister Anthony Albanese prepares to head to the Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji, Kiribati has withdrawn from the regional body.

AAP · Jul 10, 2022

Kiribati withdraws from Pacific Islands Forum in blow to regional body

President says it will not be attending forum because of failure to address concerns of Micronesian countries

The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2022

Special Report: Pacific primer

Not usually at the forefront of geopolitical argy-bargy, the Pacific has recently emerged as a strategic element of securing democracy. A rift threatened to tear apart normally unshakeable regional unity in 2021, with five Micronesian countries threatening to leave the most powerful transnational group, the Pacific Islands Forum. Ahead of…

360info · Jul 8, 2022

Keeping everyone in the tent: the Pacific Islands Forum remains whole

A last-minute agreement has avoided rupture in the Pacific Islands Forum. As the agreement was negotiated, regional strengths and vulnerabilities were revealed.

360info · Jul 8, 2022

The Pacific faces a radioactive future

Japan plans to dump radioactive water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean, but its effects on Pacific nations are not clear.

360info · Jul 8, 2022

Expanded, empowered PIF could lock in Pacific security

Amid global political turbulence, the Pacific is a region whose influence is sought by the world’s powers. Regional coordination is as important as ever.

360info · Jul 8, 2022

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Reuters · Jul 7, 2022

New Zealand PM says Pacific security issues should be solved locally

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday regional architecture such as the Pacific Islands Forum was critical in resolving regional problems and local security issues should be resolved locally.

Reuters · Jun 28, 2022

Australia commits to Pacific islands defence training as China seeks rival meeting

Australia will establish a defence school to train Pacific island militaries, Canberra's new Pacific minister said, amid intensifying competition for security ties and as Beijing seeks to host a rival meeting to the main regional group, the Pacific Islands Forum, next month.

ABC News · Jun 27, 2022

China pushes for Pacific foreign ministers meeting at same time Pacific Islands Forum meets

Beijing is attempting to muscle in on the Pacific's most important high-level gathering, pushing for a meeting with the region's foreign ministers on the same day as another key event.

ABC News · Jun 24, 2022

United States and China set to be excluded from Pacific Islands Forum meeting to avoid 'distraction'

The decision by the Pacific's peak diplomatic body to exclude major international powers from a crucial meeting next month will give leaders the opportunity to discuss regional issues without outside pressure.

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The News Lens · Jun 20, 2022

Gender Equality in the Pacific: Less Talk and More Action

Pacific women leaders are driving for change, and economic empowerment is key.

The Guardian - AU · Jun 19, 2022

Vanuatu calls on Australia to back its UN bid to recognise climate change harm

Pacific islands urge new Labor government to support push for international court of justice to issue climate advisory opinion

The Conversation · Jun 19, 2022

In the Solomon Islands, Wong takes first tentative steps in repairing a strained relationship

Foreign Minister Penny Wong was no doubt expecting a cooler reception than her three previous visits to the Pacific when she touched down in Honiara last Friday. The Solomon Islands government website had not even listed the Australian minister’s visit – but it did note the first visit of a…

Reuters · Jun 14, 2022

Pacific Islands Forum should consider China security ties - Samoa PM

China's bid to set up a security pact with Pacific island countries should be considered by a regional forum, the leaders of Samoa and New Zealand said on Tuesday, weeks after the Solomon Islands sparked uproar by signing a deal with China.

The Guardian - AU · Jun 8, 2022

Pacific leaders reach crucial deal to restore political unity, as China’s interest in region accelerates

The agreement, which stops the region’s key diplomatic body, PIF, from splitting, lifts a ‘big dark, dark cloud that has been hanging over the Pacific’

ABC News · Jun 7, 2022

Pacific leaders strike a deal to keep Micronesian nations from splitting with Pacific Islands Forum

Micronesian leaders abandon demands for the current secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum to step down immediately, allowing him to serve out his term until 2024.

Reuters · Jun 7, 2022

Pacific Islands Forum mend rift as super powers focus on region

Several leaders of Pacific Islands Forum nations met on Tuesday to resolve a dispute over leadership selection that had threatened to split the region's major diplomatic group.

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