June 9, 2022
PACIFIC OCEAN ALLIANCE MEETING. Opening Statement by Pacific Ocean Commissioner 7 June 2022, Distinguished Guests, Excellencies, Members of the Pacific Ocean Alliance, Ladies and gentlemen, Kia orana and Bula Vinaka to you all here in Suva, and joining us virtually from across the Pacific region. I am very pleased to welcome you all to this meeting of the Pacific Ocean Alliance (POA), my first, since being appointed Secretary General and Pacific Ocean Commissioner, last year. Much has evolved since the last meeting of the Pacific Ocean Alliance in 2019. We now find ourselves in a much more contested and challenge [..]