In the Pacific, it is all about the
talanoa: the conversation and the consensus.
For the 50 years of the Pacific Islands Forum (beginning life as the South Pacific Forum), meetings have always happened in person, and it is the power of the leaders being together that has given the forum its rare ability to find common ground.
In 2014, as journalist Nic Maclellan recalls, the prime ministers of Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea took a quiet walk together under the trees on the island of Peleliu, in Palau. They returned with an agreement on a new forum secretary general.
However, that won’t happen this year. 2020’s forum, after numerous delays, will take place on Wednesday but virtually, with leaders – internet permitting – joining via Zoom.
Mr. Chairman,
First let me tell you what a pleasure it is for me to be here in Tarawa to represent France and also the European Union, of which our country currently holds the presidency.
On behalf of my government and also in a personal capacity I would like to convey our most sincere congratulations to President Tito on his accession to the presidency of the South Pacific Forum and to convey to him our best wishes for every success in his mission.
I was very touched by the warm welcome we received in this magnificent country and I would like to thank the Kiribati authorities for the way in which this dialogue was organized.
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Post-COVID-19 propositions for various sectors of the economy currently abound. Credit to those who are churning out these fine ideas for public consumption. One in particular, by Dr. Transform Aqorau: ‘Imagining a new post-COVID-19 international economic order (NIEO) for the Pacific Islands’ is essentially regional in essence and in application. Dr. Aqorau refers to it as ‘a single custom and development union’, or alternatively, ‘a single economic and development union’.
His article goes on to describe this NIEO for the Pacific Islands. In the lexicon of regionalism, Aqorau’s NIEO is essentially regional economic integration, with a degree of specificity on extractive industries, structured on the basis of a free trade agreement, and which has progressed to a customs union, common market and economic union. But it goes beyond that to include advanced regional integration measures to coordinate policies beyond economic, including the coordination of institutions throu
SOLOMONS LEADERS SEEK ‘ROOT CAUSE’ OF UNREST Submitted by admin on Fri, 03/31/2006 - 00:00
By Moffat Mamu
HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Solomon Star, Mar. 29) - Local leaders in the northern Solomon Islands region of Malaita are calling on the government and RAMSI [Regional Assistance Mission Solomon Islands] to establish the root cause of the recent ethnic crisis.
The local chiefs raised the issue during an hour with the RAMSI delegation, which visited Maluú on Friday to hear some of the concerns and views of the local leaders about RAMSI and its work in the country since their arrival in 2003.
Most of the chiefs have appreciated the work of RAMSI since their arrival in the country with the arrest of those who are involved in the 1998 to 2003 crises that nearly got the country cripple financially.