This week’s summit features the forum’s largest ever delegation from China and a sizeable deputation from the United States, led by Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell.

Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum, Baron Waqa, at the opening ceremony of 2024 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Nukualofa, Tongatapu, Tonga. Photo Credit: Ali Serim ...

Pacific Island Forum Secretary General Baron Waqa states these external shocks threaten livelihoods, fiscal stability, and ...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued a stark warning to world leaders on the threat posed by the climate crisis, calling on them to cut their emissions – or face catastrophe ...

A spokesperson for the Pacific Islands Forum secretariat said on Sunday that the communique is a “consensus-based document”, and reflected the agreed decisions and views of all members.

Warning that sea levels are rising at an accelerating rate, particularly around vulnerable Pacific island nations, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a fresh climate SOS to the world ...

A joint declaration by Pacific leaders was reissued Saturday morning with mentions of Taiwan removed after China slammed an earlier version as a "mistake" that "must be corrected".

“We don’t want them to fight in our backyard here. Take that elsewhere,” Baron Waqa, the forum’s secretary-general and a former president of Nauru, told reporters last month.

“We don’t want them to fight in our backyard here. Take that elsewhere,” Baron Waqa, the forum’s secretary-general and a former president of Nauru, told reporters last month.

This week’s summit features the forum’s largest ever delegation from China and a sizeable deputation from the United States, led by Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell.