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Niue Ready To Host 2010 FEMM
Tuesday, 26 October 2010, 5:39 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
Niue is ready to host the 14th Forum Economic Ministers’ Meeting which gets underway on 26 October. Over half of the Forum Economic Ministers and officials have already arrived in Niue with the rest expected to arrive before the meeting starts. More >>
PIFS Launches Publication On Leadership Practices
Sunday, 24 October 2010, 11:11 am | Pacific Islands Forum
Leaders in Forum countries by and large respect and abide by their laws and systems of government, but there are troubling features including growing dominance of the Executive and a disconnect between policy and its application. More >>
Forum Economic Ministers To Meet In Niue
Friday, 22 October 2010, 3:41 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
Pacific Islands Forum Economic Ministers will attend the 14th Forum Economic Ministers’ Meeting (FEMM) in Alofi, Niue, 26 – 28 October 2010 which will focus on the overarching theme of “Broadening the Economic Base”. More >>
NSA Dialogue On PACER Plus Historical
Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 3:16 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
The Non-State Actors Dialogue on PACER Plus which got underway in Honiara, Solomon Islands this morning is historical as it is the first of its kind under the proposed trade agreement. More >>
FICs Establish Business Links With China
Friday, 15 October 2010, 3:51 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
Pacific private sector representatives returned from Shanghai with Chinese business connections developed during the inaugural “China-Forum Island Countries Trade and Investment Symposium,” a Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat initiative. More >>
Forum Education Ministers To Meet In PNG
Friday, 8 October 2010, 3:46 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
Ministers of Education from Pacific Islands Forum member countries will meet in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea 13 – 14 October 2010 to discuss a wide range of issues concerning the development of the education sector in the region. More >>
New Pacific Islands Forum Representative To WTO
Friday, 1 October 2010, 4:00 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
The Pacific Islands Forum has a new Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) based in Geneva, Switzerland. She is Mrs Aivu Raevo Tauvasa from Papua New Guinea. More >>
Forum Work On Regional Strategy On Disability
Tuesday, 17 August 2010, 4:38 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and other stakeholders have begun work towards the implementation of the Pacific Regional Strategy on Disability after it was endorsed at the 41st Pacific Islands Forum held in Port Vila, Vanuatu 3 – 6 August. More >>
Forum Education Ministers Meeting Effective
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 5:12 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
The Forum Education Ministers’ Meeting (FEdMM) has provided a very effective platform for leveraging donors and development partners’ reactions to the development needs of education in the region. More >>
Pacific Education Development Framework meeting
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 2:36 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
Senior education officials from Forum island countries, development partners, regional and international organizations and other stakeholders are meeting in Nadi, Fiji 11 – 13 August to discuss major challenges facing the education systems in the ... More >>
Forum Observes Solomon Islands General Elections
Friday, 6 August 2010, 5:47 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
At the invitation of the caretaker Solomon Islands Government, the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat deployed a team of election observers to attend the Solomon Islands National General Election held 4 August 2010. More >>
Communique of the 41st Pacific Islands Forum
Friday, 6 August 2010, 3:43 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
Leaders welcomed and endorsed the Port Vila Declaration on Accelerating Progress on the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.Climate change remains the greatest threat to the livelihoods, security and well-being of the Pacific peoples. More >>
Forum Communique Reflects Concerns Of Leaders
Friday, 6 August 2010, 3:22 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
The Communiqué of the 41st Pacific Islands Forum held in Port Vila, Republic of Vanuatu this week reflects the concerns of Forum Leaders to address the major challenges facing nations in the region. More >>
Forum Leaders And Private Sector Dialogue
Friday, 6 August 2010, 3:17 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
Improving access to finance for Pacific island enterprise was the focus of the first Private Sector Dialogue with Forum Leaders, held on Wednesday 4th August in Port Vila, Vanuatu. More >>
Opening Remarks By SG Tuiloma Neroni Slade
Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 5:19 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
For an appreciable time now, the Pacific ACP region has benefitted from development assistance provided by the EU through its European Development Fund. Pacific ACP countries get assistance through programmes negotiated with the EU. More >>
Pacific ACP Leaders' Meeting
Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 5:12 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
Progress in the implementation of the Pacific Regional Indicative Programme of the European Development Fund (EDF)-10 has been pleasing despite the time taken and the many technicalities and difficulties encountered in developing a regional strategy. More >>
Operation Tui Moana
Thursday, 10 June 2010, 1:24 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
Operation Tui Moana, a surveillance operation involving Cook Islands, Samoa and New Zealand, coordinated by the FFA Regional Fisheries Surveillance Centre, concluded on Monday demonstrating determination by FFA members to deter illegal fishing by ... More >>
PIF Contact Group on Fiji to meet in NZ
Friday, 28 May 2010, 2:48 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
In a continuation of the Pacific Islands Forum’s efforts to engage with Fiji authorities, the Forum’s Ministerial Contact Group (MCG) will meet in Auckland, New Zealand on 31 May 2010, in accordance with the Forum Leaders’ mandate for the Group to ... More >>
PACP States Submit Two Projects For Funding
Sunday, 23 May 2010, 11:42 am | Pacific Islands Forum
Trade Officials from Pacific-ACP States agreed at a meeting in Nadi, Fiji on 4th May to submit an Identification Fiche comprising two projects to the European Commission for consideration for funding under the Pacific Regional Indicative Programme financed ... More >>
Forum Trade Ministers Meet In The FSM
Tuesday, 27 April 2010, 5:22 pm | Pacific Islands Forum
Boosting trade and investment to help increase growth and development in Pacific island countries will be the top priority for Forum Trade Ministers when they meet in Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia this week. More >>
