Tag: MSG
Pacific Islands Forum leaders in Koror – heavy on reaffirming but...
ANALYSIS: By Tess Newton Cain and Stefan Armbruster
With a Chinese ballistic missile test in July as prelude, the familiar China-Taiwan tensions and preparations for...
Australia snubs Torres Strait in Melanesian Spearhead Group bid
By Stefan Armbruster and Jennifer Enosa for the Torres News
Australia is seeking observer status at the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) but has not committed...
Pacific Islands Forum: Is Australia out of touch with the Pacific...
ANALYSIS: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific
On the second day of the Pacific Islands Forum leaders' meeting in Palau, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese...
West Papuan group urges Jakarta to put words into action on...
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific
A leading West Papua pro-independence group has questioned Indonesia's assertion that a proposed visit by the United Nations High...
West Papua: The Pacific’s new test of Indonesia’s sovereignty narrative
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin
The 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Meeting in Koror, Palau, last week has pushed West Papua back to the centre of...
West Papua activist calls on Pacific leaders to pressure Indonesia over...
By Susana Suisuiki of RNZ Pacific
For 20 years, West Papuan activist Paula Makabory has not set foot in her ancestral homeland. Her family still...
UN human rights commissioner visit to West Papua on track, says...
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific
Indonesia's government has indicated that a visit by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to West Papua is...
Melanesian countries to review Indonesia’s status at MSG if no action...
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific
Melanesian countries are pushing Indonesia to facilitate a long-requested visit to West Papua by the UN High Commissioner for...
West Papuan leader calls on Pacific Forum to ‘break its silence’...
Asia Pacific Report
An exiled West Papuan leader living in Australia is calling on Oceania leaders at the Pacific Island Forum meeting in Palau this...
Vanuatu special envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific...
By Ezra Toara in Port Vila
The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) should revisit a proposal for an independent regional delegation to visit West Papua and...
Vanuatu govt blasts chiefs’ demand to replace first female MSG head...
RNZ Pacific reporters
Vanuatu's government has issued a stinging rebuke to the country's customary leaders who have reportedly called for revoking the appointment of the...
Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre blasts ‘misogynistic attack’ over MSG leadership
Asia Pacific Report
The Fiji Women's Crisis Centre has strongly condemned a reported "ultimatum" from the Malvatumauri National Council of Chiefs demanding that the appointment...
Vanuatu’s Anna Naupa becomes first woman to lead MSG Secretariat
RNZ Pacific
A Pacific politics expert and ni-Vanuatu woman has become the first woman to be appointed to lead the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Secretariat.
Anna...
Fiji human rights coalition challenges Rabuka over decolonisation ‘unfinished business’
Asia Pacific Report
The NGO Coalition on Human Rights in Fiji (NGOCHR) has called on Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka as the new chair of the...
‘Don’t surrender’ to Indonesian pressure over West Papua, Bomanak warns MSG
Asia Pacific Report
A West Papuan independence movement leader has warned the Melanesian Spearhead Group after its 23rd leaders summit in Suva, Fiji, to not...
Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders discuss Middle East conflict before ceasefire
RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says the Middle East conflict was one of the discussions of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG)...
Fiji advocacy group slams Indonesian role in MSG as a ‘disgrace’
Asia Pacific Report
A Fiji-based advocacy group has condemned the participation of Indonesia in the Melanesian Spearhead Group which is meeting in Suva this week,...
Pro-independence advocates urge MSG to elevate West Papua membership
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
Two international organisations are leading a call for the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) to elevate the membership status...
Top Pacific diplomats ready for direct talks on Bougainville independence
By Leah Lowonbu, Stefan Armbruster and Harlyne Joku of BenarNews
The Pacific’s peak diplomatic bodies have signalled they are ready to engage with Papua New...
Papuan aspirations at stake in divided Melanesian Spearhead Group politics
COMMENTARY: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta
The Land of Papua is widely known as a land full of milk and honey. It is a name...
Macron gives Pacific mission to Kanaky New Caledonia green light, says...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor
France has approved a high-level Pacific "fact-finding mission" to New Caledonia to gather information from all sides involved...
New Zealand urged to take bolder stand over New Caledonia’s third...
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand should join others in calling New Caledonia's third independence referendum invalid, one of the founders of the Kanaky Aotearoa Solidarity Network...
