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Pacific leaders to meet on beautiful island to discuss climate change and other regional concerns

A group of South Pacific leaders was due to travel to the beautiful island of Aitutaki on Thursday ahead of a meeting to discuss climate change and other regional concerns

The Independent UK

Pacific Islands Forum: what is it and why does it matter?

Climate change and rising strategic competition among issues facing leaders at region’s most important political gathering

The Guardian - AU

Pacific Islands Forum head says yes vote on Indigenous voice would ‘elevate Australia’ on world stage

Henry Puna’s intervention comes after Vanuatu’s ex-foreign minister said a no win on 14 October would be a blow to Australia’s relationships with region

The Guardian - AU

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Biden pledges more aid to Pacific islands to counter growing Chinese influence

Leaders of Pacific island states have been given star treatment in Washington but Chinese influence is the spectre at the feast

The Guardian - US

Biden seeks to win over Pacific leaders as Solomon Islands turns back on talks

‘Historic’ summit seen as part of effort to counter Beijing in the region as Pacific leaders seek more support on climate change

The Guardian - AU

‘We depend on our beautiful reefs’: Fukushima water release plan sparks concern across Pacific

Some fishers say they lack information and worry about Japan’s plan to discharge treated wastewater into the sea

The Guardian - AU

‘Harsh consequences’ in Pacific over climate inaction

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned of harsh consequences in the Pacific unless the world tackles climate change.

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'Harsh consequences' in Pacific over climate inaction

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned of harsh consequences in the Pacific unless the world tackles climate change.

AAP

Pacific islands, in spotlight, to push climate change in South Korea summit

Pacific island leaders will meet South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul on Monday, their third summit in a week with a large economy as the region seeks stronger action on climate change as it becomes a focus of geopolitical power attention.

Reuters

Pacific family to reunite in Fiji after forum drama

After a period of disunity, Fiji prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka will bring regional leaders together for a special summit of the Pacific Islands Forum.

AAP

Plenty of action behind the scenes for ‘boring’ Albanese government

Mr Albanese said he was trying to “take politics off the front pages”.

The New Daily

Pacific islands leaders commit to regional unity in face of superpower rivalry

Pacific island leaders have agreed to take a united approach as the United States and China vie for influence in the region, and to push developed nations for bolder action on climate change, which they say is the biggest threat they face.

Reuters

PIF leaders lament loss of Pacific unity

Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong has joined calls urging Micronesian breakaway nation Kiribati to return to the Pacific Islands Forum.

AAP

Pacific summit: Suva near to bursting as PIF meeting turns Fiji’s pandemic bust to boom

Everybody in the Fijian capital is run off their feet as delegates converge for the Pacific Islands Forum and give a glimpse of the good times again

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Kiribati's shock withdrawal overshadows Pacific leaders meeting

The withdrawal of the remote Pacific island nation of Kiribati from the region's key diplomatic group has overshadowed the Pacific Islands Forum as leaders arrive in Fiji for the first in-person meeting in two years.

ABC News

Kiribati announces withdrawal from Pacific Islands Forum on eve of leaders' meeting

Kiribati has announced it will push ahead with its withdrawal from the Pacific Islands Forum, delivering a damaging blow to the regional body on the eve of its most important meeting in years.

360info

Keeping everyone in the tent: the Pacific Islands Forum remains whole

A last-minute agreement has avoided rupture in the Pacific Islands Forum. As the agreement was negotiated, regional strengths and vulnerabilities were revealed.

The Guardian - AU

Pacific leaders reach crucial deal to restore political unity, as China’s interest in region accelerates

The agreement, which stops the region’s key diplomatic body, PIF, from splitting, lifts a ‘big dark, dark cloud that has been hanging over the Pacific’

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Pacific leaders strike a deal to keep Micronesian nations from splitting with Pacific Islands Forum

Micronesian leaders abandon demands for the current secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum to step down immediately, allowing him to serve out his term until 2024.

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Pacific Island Forum's leadership crisis comes into focus as leaders arrive in Fiji to resolve tensions

The ABC understands Pacific Island leaders hope to strike an agreement to resolve leadership questions, reform the organisation and allow the forum to stay whole, after last year's threat by Micronesian nations to withdraw.

The Guardian - AU

Penny Wong ramps up Pacific lobbying effort as she flies out to Samoa and Tonga

Foreign affairs minister tells regional leaders ‘we understand we need to work together like never before’ as battle for influence with China intensifies

ABC News

Pacific Islands Forum's head to be replaced, FSM President David Panuelo says, after leadership dispute

Recently elected secretary-general Henry Puna will step down in order to stop the key regional diplomatic body from splitting, according to a top Micronesian leader.

ABC News

Pacific Islands Forum saved from collapse at last minute as Micronesian states 'temporarily' rescind withdrawal

Right as the deadline for Micronesian nations to leave the crucial regional forum approaches, the move is paused. But it's not yet clear what stopped them from leaving.

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