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Fiji's Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad
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NZ's parliamentary Beehive
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Port Moresby's Bomana prison
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Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change Adaptation Ralph Regenvanu
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Flying high for Melanesia . . . the Kanaky New Caledonia flag
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Vanuatu's Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu
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Indonesian associate membership of MSG
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Deployment in Enga comprises more than 120 PNG Defence Force soldiers
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It is important politically and economically for New Zealand to have trading relations with both G7 and developing countries
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PNG's Correctional Services Commissioner Stephen Pokanis
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Retired academic Professor Vijay Naidu and Fonu Emberson-Bain -- wearing the Fiji Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG) tee-shirt
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The ground-breaking ceremony for the Indonesian-funded ugrade of the VIP Lounge in Port Vila
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Former Vanuatu prime minister Barak Sope
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Vanuatu's public broadcaster VBTC reporting on the Melanesian Spearhead Group's denial of full membership for West Papua
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West Papuan support for the Melanesian Spearhead Group
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A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
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Pacific Climate Warriors
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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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