Pacific Islands Forum

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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...

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...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

...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

...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