December 16, 2022
This year, our Leaders endorsed the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent, setting out our collective approach to achieving sustained security, development, and prosperity for all peoples in the Pacific[...]
December 15, 2022
From Pandora to the Pacific: Avatar: The Way of Water Screening Bula vinaka, Kia Orana and warm Pacific greetings. I’m delighted to join you […]
December 1, 2022
Remarks by H.E Henry Puna, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum & Pacific Ocean Commissioner Held in Singapore from 29 – 30 December 2022 Excellencies, […]
October 24, 2022
•Kia Orana and Bula Vinaka!
It gives me great pleasure to welcome Ambassador Peter Thomson to the Secretariat this afternoon, and for all of us to collectively learn from him today[...]
September 21, 2022
Madam President, I make this statement on behalf of the Pacific Small Island Developing States. On Day 2 of the IGC, we reaffirmed our commitment to this process and our firm hope in making this the Fifth and Final IGC.
September 21, 2022
The world has yet to deliver an agreed Outcome to the 5th Intergovernmental Conference to draft a Maritime Biodiversity Treaty. This is particularly disappointing news given the urgency and hard work by all, for an end to these long-running negotiations.
As with all global island states of the world, our Blue Pacific has long lobbied for an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond [...]
February 21, 2022
Brest, France, Feb 11th, 2022- Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General Henry Puna has called on all States to play their part when it comes to maintaining the health of the ocean. SG Puna made the plea as he attended the One Ocean Summit conference in Brest, France, also attending in his capacity as the Pacific Ocean Commissioner.(Click button for full article)
September 1, 2019
Suva, Fiji – After two weeks of intense and complex negotiations on a new treaty to conserve and sustainably use biological diversity beyond national jurisdiction, the […]
September 1, 2019
The third round of negotiation to establish a new global treaty to oversee the management and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in the high seas concluded […]