Tag: Pacific Islands Forum
Rabuka, PIF ‘undermine credibility’ of Pacific experts over Japan’s nuclear waste dumping plan
By Aralai Vosayaco in Suva
The Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) is disappointed with the Fiji government and Pacific Islands Forum’s endorsement of the Japanese...
Japan’s Fukushima nuclear waste plan stirs ‘Pacific Chernobyl’ risk protests
By Peter Boyle in Sydney
As Pacific communities protest the Japanese government’s plan to dump more than a million tonnes of radioactive waste water from...
Pacific unity crucial in ‘crowded geopolitical landscape’, says Fiame
RNZ Pacific
Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataafa has urged her fellow Pacific leaders to stop paying lip service to regionalism and walk the talk...
Climate crisis ‘greatest threat’ to Pacific regional security, says Vanuatu PM
By Hilaire Bule
Vanuatu Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau says Pacific security is about the security of the Pacific peoples and their way of life as...
West Papuan ‘provisional’ government backs full membership of MSG
Asia Pacific Report
The self-styled provisional government of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua
“with the people” of the Melanesian region have declared political support...
Kanaky New Caledonia’s FLNKS wants ICJ advice on contested vote
By Walter Zweifel
New Caledonia’s pro-independence FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) says the advice of the International Court of Justice is being sought...