Tag: Diplomacy

Nakba Day today marks 15 May 1948 -- the day after the declaration of the State of Israel -- when the Palestinian society and...

ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin On April 24, 2025, Indonesia made a masterful geopolitical move. Jakarta granted Fiji US$6 million in financial aid and offered to...

Asia Pacific Report The advocacy group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned the New Zealand government fpr failing to make a humanitarian submission to the...

By Anish Chand in Suva Filipo Tarakinikini has been appointed as Fiji’s Ambassador-designate to Israel. This has been stated on two official X, formerly Twitter, handle...

COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs In the absence of any measures taken by the New Zealand government to respond to the genocide being committed by Israel...

By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific journalist in Hawai'i New Zealand's Pacific connection with the United States is "more important than ever", says Foreign Affairs Minister...

Now that Phil Goff has ended his term as New Zealand's High Commissioner to the UK, he is officially free to speak his mind...

RNZ News The prime ministers of New Zealand and Papua New Guinea have signed a new statement of partnership marking 50 years of bilateral relations...

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The parties involved in talks aimed at resolving an impasse over Bougainville's push for independence are planning to...

ANALYSIS: By Robert Patman New Zealand's National-led coalition government’s policy on Gaza seems caught between a desire for a two-state diplomatic solution to the Israeli-Palestinian...

Asia Pacific Report A former US diplomat, Nabeel Khoury, says President Donald Trump’s decision to launch attacks against the Houthis is misguided, and this will...

COMMENTARY: By Ahmed Najar 'To the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD!...

ANALYSIS: By Matthew Sussex, Australian National University Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself...

By Talaia Mika of the Cook Islands News As concerns continue to emerge over China's "unusual" naval exercises in the Tasman Sea, raising eyebrows from...

RNZ Pacific Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka's announcement this week that the island nation will open a diplomatic mission in Jerusalem has been labelled "an...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark maintains that Cook Islands, a realm of New Zealand, should have...

Pacific Media Watch Fiji has reaffirmed its commitment to establishing an embassy in Israel, with plans to open the embassy in Jerusalem, despite global condemnation...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist China and the Cook Islands' relationship "should not be disrupted or restrained by any third party", says Chinese Foreign...

By Rachel Helyer Donaldson, RNZ News journalist New Zealand should be robust in its response to the "unacceptable" situation in Gaza but it must also...

A NZ-born Kiribati member of Parliament, Ruth Cross Kwansing, has tried to bring in some Pacific common sense into the diplomatic tiff between her...

COMMENTARY: By Tess Newton Cain It didn’t come as a surprise to see President Donald Trump sign executive orders to again pull out of the...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific Bulletin editor/presenter Kiribati President Taneti Maamau was unable to meet New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters because he had "a...