Tag: Pacific Islands Forum

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin Indonesia officially joined the BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa -- consortium last week marking a significant milestone in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...