Tag: Pacific diplomacy
PNG’s Marape makes foreign policy gaffes over Israel, West Papua
ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report
Prime Minister James Marape has made two foreign policy gaffes in the space of a week...
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...
Samoa becomes first Pacific country to host next CHOGM meeting in...
RNZ Pacific
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting has ended in Rwanda with Samoa confirmed as the next host of the meeting.
Samoa's hosting of the...
Steven Ratuva: Pacific agency: A devalued political capital?
ANALYSIS: By Professor Steven Ratuva
The West and China continue to exert influence over the Pacific region. But discussions of Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are...
Samoa and China have no plans for military ties, says Fiamē
RNZ Pacific
Samoa and China do not have any plans for military ties, Samoa Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa says.
Fiamē -- who is on a...
MP warns Solomons-China security pact could ‘inflame tensions’
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific regional correspondent
A senior Solomon Islands opposition MP has warned that the controversial security agreement with China could result in...
Departing Labour MP Louisa Wall: ‘This was not entirely my choice’
RNZ News
The long-serving New Zealand MP Louisa Wall has fired a broadside at her own Labour Party as she leaves Parliament to take up...