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
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 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
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 […]
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