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Henry Puna, the former prime minister of Cook Islands was voted in as the new secretary general of the Pacific Islands Forum after hours of talks between regional leaders failed to reach consensus.
Mr Puna, who resigned as prime minister last year to be eligible for the post defeated his closest rival Gabriel Zackios of the Marshall Islands by nine votes to eight at a special virtual Forum Leaders Retreat.
The lead up to the meeting was contentious with Micronesian leaders insisting that convention be followed and the secretary general post rotated to Micronesia.
While their candidate Marshall Islands ambassador to the US Gerald Zackios had the backing of five Micronesian countries he couldn t get the support of the 17 Pacific leaders at the retreat.
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Reimagining Pacific regionalism
A rare conjunction of events is emerging. The events are both directional and prescriptive. The conjunction’s rarity is evocative. The conjunction provides an opportunity for Pacific regionalism (or the Pacific Islands Forum, PIF) to reinvent itself in order to capture the lost grounds it has frittered away since its genesis.
The calendrical end-of-the-year is synergised by institutional, exceptional and wider regional and global events whose essences can additionally incentivise the creative embodiment of the reinvention so needed.
December 2020 brings to an end the services of the incumbent PIFS Secretary General (SG), Dame Meg Taylor. Her replacement will take office in January 2021. The incoming SG’s terms of reference will be set out in the provisions of the 2050 Strategy, currently being compiled. The institutional processes of PIF will ensure fulfillment of that specific objective.
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