Statements

September 21, 2022

REMARKS: Statement by Forum SG Puna on the BBNJ-IGC5 continuation

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 [...]

June 9, 2022

Pacific Ocean Alliance Meeting Opening

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 [..]
March 25, 2022

Statement by Secretary General of Pacific Islands Forum and Pacific Ocean Commissioner Mr Henry Puna at the Pacific Women Leaders Side Event at CSW 66, March 24, 2022

Hon Wevers- Croes, Prime Minister of Aruba Hon Fiame Mataafa, Prime Minister of Samoa Minister Rosy Akbar, Fiji’s Minister for Women Director General Dr Manu Tupou-Roosen […]