Tag: Pacific Islands Forum
Call for fresh Blue Pacific rules-based order: ‘Our home, our rules’
COMMENTARY: By Sione Tekiteki and Joel Nilon
Ongoing wars and conflict around the world expose how international law and norms can be co-opted. With the...
Seven decades on, Marshall Islands still reeling from nuclear testing legacy
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific Bulletin editor/presenter
The Marshall Islands marked 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tests ever conducted were unleashed over...
Marshall Islands signs treaty banning nuclear weapons in the South Pacific
RNZ Pacific
The Marshall Islands has become the 14th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) member state to join the South Pacific's nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament treaty.
The...
Marape calls US climate backtracking ‘irresponsible’ in rethink plea to Trump
PNG Post-Courier
In a fervent appeal to the global community, Prime Minister James Marape of Papua New Guinea has called on US President Donald Trump...
Deep freeze: Pacific ‘alarm’ as Trump leaves US diplomats with little...
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...
Vanuatu AG condemns Trump’s Paris climate treaty exit as ‘troubling precedent’
By Harry Pearl of BenarNews
Vanuatu’s top lawyer has called out the United States for “bad behavior” after newly inaugurated President Donald Trump withdrew the...
Indonesia joins BRICS: What now for West Papuan goal of independence?
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin
Indonesia officially joined the BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa -- consortium last week marking a significant milestone in...
Northern Marianas leaders meet Taiwan President Lai Ching-te in Guam
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent
Northern Marianas Governor Arnold Palacios and Senator Celina Babauta have travelled to Guam to...
Pacific nation leaders look forward to strengthened US relations with Trump
RNZ Pacific
The Tongan and Fijian prime ministers are among the first Pacific Island leaders to congratulate US President-elect Donald Trump.
Trump, 78, returned to the...
Cook Islands PM calls for easing of tensions in New Caledonia
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has returned from New Caledonia saying it is not a simple "black and...
Forum troika’s visit highlights value of regionalism for New Caledonia
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
As a three-day fact-finding mission from a group of Pacific leaders drew to a close...
Pacific leaders’ troika begins New Caledonia fact-finding mission
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders' troika, along with the Fiji's prime minister, arrived in Kanaky...
Kanak pastor advocates for ‘hope and ‘humanity’ as Pacific leaders visit...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor
A Kanak pastor from the Protestant Church of Kanaky New Caledonia, attending a Pacific solidarity forum in Aotearoa,...
UN experts ‘alarmed’ by Kanaky New Caledonia deaths as Pacific fact-finding...
By Stefan Armbruster of BenarNews
France has been criticised for the “alarming” death toll in New Caledonia during recent protests and its “cold shower” approach...
Prabowo takes power as Indonesian military set up new battalions – what...
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin
In the lead up to the inauguration of President Prabowo Subianto last Sunday, Indonesia established five "Vulnerable Area Buffer Infantry Battalions"...
Rabuka’s message to free Kanaky movement: ‘Don’t slap the hand that...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka is cautioning New Caledonia's local government to "be reasonable" in its requests from...
Brown’s ‘backflip’ over Japanese nuclear wastewater dump poses challenge for Forum
COMMENTARY: By Brittany Nawaqatabu in Suva
Regional leaders will gather later this month in Tonga for the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Tonga...
Fiji’s Rabuka ‘will apologise’ to Melanesian leaders over failure to visit...
By Lice Movono and Stephen Dziedzic of ABC Pacific Beat
Fiji's Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, says he will "apologise" to fellow Melanesian leaders later this...
Greenlight given to Guam, American Samoa for PIF associate membership
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Pacific foreign ministers have given their nod of approval for United States territories Guam and American Samoa to be...
Brown, Rabuka and Manele to lead Pacific mission to New Caledonia
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Suva
The high-level Pacific mission to New Caledonia will be a three person-led delegation and it is still...
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...
France ‘decides who enters’ New Caledonia: French diplomat on Pacific leaders...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
France is "checking" whether a high-level mission to New Caledonia will be possible prior to or after the Pacific...