Pacific Islands Forum
International Organization
The freeze is not working, so what about a thaw?...were taken hostage and the governments operated by decree, but full diplomatic relations continued and there was no suspension from the South Pacific Forum." Sayed-Khaiyum was clearly irked after a recent reception at which, he said, he... In this article: Fiji, Canberra, Australia, Democracy, South Pacific Forum, and Pacific |
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Sydney Morning Herald - World | 9 hours ago
Pressure on Fiji fails as China lends hand
...who receive Australian aid worth about $27 million last year. On the urging of Australia and New Zealand, Fiji's membership of the South Pacific Forum and the Commonwealth has been suspended. But its rhetoric and its diplomatic efforts...
In this article: Fiji, Canberra, China, Beijing, Democracy, Suva, European Union, United Nations, Washington, and Fiji Times
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The Australian | 3 days ago
Islanders look for RAMSI exit strategy
...the parliamentarians say, some of these issues are now being addressed by a new partnership framework between RAMSI, the government, and the Pacific Islands Forum under whose auspices RAMSI operates, with all 16 forum countries contributing...
In this article: Honiara, Malaita, Australia, Pacific, Solomon Islands, and Anglican
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | November 15, 2009
Patience becomes a PM on the move
...Rudd plans discretionary trips there are four or five must-do events a year. These include APEC, the G20, the East Asia Summit, the Pacific Islands Forum and, every two years, CHOGM. Rudd, the avowed multilateralist, has decided the United...
In this article: Kevin Rudd, APEC, Climate change, Copenhagen, Singapore, India, and Australia
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The Australian | November 12, 2009
Sarkozy Heralds New Approach Towards Pacific
...why my government has engaged the necessary steps so that New Caledonia becomes a full member of certain regional organisations, such as the Pacific Islands Forum and the Melanesian Spearhead Group (at which FLNKS sits), he announced. "The...
In this article: Nicolas Sarkozy, Pacific, France, New Caledonia, Deforestation, and International Federation of Journalists
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Sydney Morning Herald - World | November 10, 2009
EU 'regrets' Fiji expulsion of envoys
...in Fiji would be expelled, triggering tit-for-tat expulsions from Wellington and Canberra. Fiji was suspended from the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum in May and from the Commonwealth in September over broken promises to hold...
In this article: European Union, Fiji, Democracy, Frank Bainimarama, New Zealand, Australia, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Canberra, and Wellington
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | November 08, 2009
Australia is right to keep the pressure on Fiji
...beyond diplomatic tit-for-tat to be a potential threat to regional stability. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who is current chairman of the Pacific Islands Forum, has defended Australia's hardline approach to Fiji by saying, ''We do not want this...
In this article: Fiji, Kevin Rudd, Australia, Pacific, Democracy, Karl Lagerfeld, and New Zealand
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Sydney Morning Herald - World | November 04, 2009
US 'deplores' Fiji's expulsion of envoys
...Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters. "This latter act is unprecedented in that Australia now holds the chairmanship of the Pacific Islands Forum," he said. On Wednesday Australia and New Zealand announced tit-for-tat...
In this article: Fiji, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Democracy, New Zealand, State Department, and Pacific
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Sydney Morning Herald - National | November 04, 2009
No end in sight to Fiji problems
...lost traction as a result of the ''arc of instability'' from Papua New Guinea to the Solomon Islands, Fiji and Tonga. The regional body, the Pacific Islands Forum, has made some progress by getting its 16 members to agree to regional...
In this article: Democracy, Fiji, Suva, Human Rights Protection Party, Victoria University of Wellington, and University of Queensland
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BBC News | November 04, 2009
Australia and NZ expel Fijians
...reasonable nor justified and regrettably it takes Fiji's relationship with Australia, Fiji's relationship with New Zealand... the Pacific Islands Forum and... the international community backwards," Smith told reporters in Perth. New...
In this article: Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Murray McCully, Pacific, Kevin Rudd, and New Zealand
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Kansas City Star | November 03, 2009
Pacific diplomatic row deepens
...push Bainimarama to hold democratic elections. </p><p>The regional powers have also pushed successfully for Fiji to be suspended from the Pacific Islands Forum and the Commonwealth, a regional bloc. </p><p>The latest spat is over a group of...
In this article: Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific, Democracy, Australian Broadcasting Corp., and Kevin Rudd
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The Pacific Islands Forum is an inter-governmental organization which aims to enhance cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean and represent their interests. It was founded in 1971 as the South Pacific Forum. In 2000, the name was changed; Pacific Islands Forum is more inclusive of the Forum's Oceania-spanning membership of both north and south Pacific island countries and Australia.
The Forum's member states are: Australia, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Sāmoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Since 2006, associate members territories are New Caledonia and French Polynesia.
The decisions of the Forum are implemented by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), which grew out of the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Co-operation (SPEC). As well as its role in harmonising regional positions on various political and policy issues, the Forum Secretariat has technical programmes in economic development, transport and trade. The Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General is the permanent Chairman of the Council of Regional Organisations in the Pacific (CROP).
- Name:
- Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 1971
- Head:
- Tuiloma Neroni Slade
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