Tag: Diplomacy
Human rights researcher pleads for West Papuan rebels to free NZ...
By Finau Fonua and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalists
A researcher at Human Rights Watch in Jakarta is calling for the immediate release of the...
PNG’s ‘useless Maseratis’ – now a used car twist to the...
PNG Post-Courier
There is a new twist in Papua New Guinea's four-year drama surrounding the Maseratis bought for the 2018 APEC Summit.
It has emerged that...
Namah blasts PNG government over ‘serious’ Indonesian border issues
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
An angry tirade on Papua New Guinea and Indonesia border issues in the PNG Parliament yesterday is likely to...
Fears over China influence leads US to reopen Solomon Islands embassy
RNZ Pacific
Washington has announced plans to reopen the United States Embassy in Solomon Islands.
Inside the Games reports that the move is a bid to...
US to boost aid to Micronesia in exchange for broader military...
By Mar-Vic Cagurangan, editor-in-chief of the Pacific Island Times
The Federated States of Micronesia will receive more US economic assistance under the Compact of...
FLNKS congratulates Fiji PM Rabuka and his coalition government
By Timoci Vula in Suva
The Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) of Kanaky New Caledonia has congratulated Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and his...
Christmas gift for Fiji: New political era balanced on a knife-edge
RNZ Pacific
Fiji has finally reached the other side of the long and winding road that was the 2022 general election and can enjoy the...
Woman among favoured nominations for PNG governor-general
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea is close to voting in it first female Govenor-General after nominations for the post closed yesterday...
Dealing with a ‘bloody messy’ world – the urgent foreign policy...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
Since Jacinda Ardern described the state of world affairs as “bloody messy” earlier this year there have been...
Papuans mourn sudden loss of ‘one of their brightest stars’
OBITUARY: By Yamin Kogoya
The sudden death of activist Leonie Tanggahma has shaken Papuan communities. Her loss last week has shocked West Papuans who regarded...
Honiara doesn’t want to be forced to choose sides, says Foreign...
RNZ Pacific
Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele says the country joined an agreement with the United States only after changes to wording relating to...
NZ consul hails long-standing ties with New Caledonia
RNZ Pacific
The Consul-General of New Zealand for the French Pacific territories, Felicity Roxburgh, says New Zealand's presence in New Caledonia is historical.
She said she...
France defers referendum on new statute for New Caledonia Kanaky
RNZ Pacific
Plans to hold a referendum in Kanaky New Caledonia next year on a new statute for the territory are being deferred.
French Junior Overseas...
French envoys to visit New Caledonia in September with unknown plan
RNZ Pacific
The newly re-elected President of the New Caledonian Congress, Roch Wamytan, says a visit by French representatives will take place on September 12.
The...
Marape pledges investigation into border shooting incident as Jakarta protests
By Miriam Zarriga and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Indonesia has lodged a diplomatic protest with Papua New Guinea after the alleged shooting of an...
Post-Courier: Border patrol by soldiers or navy must be taken seriously
EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier
The alleged shooting of Indonesian fishermen by Papua New Guinean soldiers last week where one Indonesian was reportedly killed is a...
The world must not wash its hands of Afghanistan’s misery
ANALYSIS: By Mohammad Sadiq Sohail, an East-West Centre research specialist in Honolulu
Part 1 of a two-part series on the one-year anniversary of the Taliban...
Russia bars entry to 32 New Zealanders in sanctions response
RNZ News
Russia's foreign ministry has slapped New Zealand journalists, officials and an academic with sanctions for supporting what it called the country's "Russophobic agenda".
The...
US tells Pacific leaders it will ‘deepen commitment’ to the region
RNZ Pacific
United States Vice-President Kamala Harris has assured Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting in the Fiji capital Suva that Washington will "significantly deepen" its...
Empty seats mark first Pacific Islands Forum summit meeting
RNZ Pacific
Seats were glaringly empty at the Pacific Islands Forum summit in Suva this morning as Pacific leaders sat down to the first formal...
Kiribati exit from Pacific forum ‘out of order’, says founding president
RNZ Pacific
Kiribati's sudden withdrawal from the Pacific Islands Forum without wider political discussion by the government is out of order, the country's opposition leader...
Some see NZ’s invite to the NATO summit as a reward...
ANALYSIS: By Robert G. Patman, University of Otago
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s acceptance of an invitation to speak at this week’s NATO leaders’ summit in...