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Big Polluters Urged To Pay As Key Pacific Summit Opens In Tonga

Emissions-belching nations were challenged to stump up for climate-related damage as a key Pacific islands summit opened on Monday, with low-lying Tuvalu declaring: "If you pollute, you should pay."

International Business Times

Pacific Leaders Confront 'Polycrisis' Of Rising Seas And Climbing Tensions

Pacific island leaders gather for a key summit in the Kingdom of Tonga on Monday, aiming to navigate rapidly rising seas, damaging great power rivalries and violent unrest in New Caledonia.

International Business Times

Nauru drops out of Pacific leaders retreat

Hopes were high going into this year's retreat that the division of the past two years between Micronesia and the rest of the forum had been put to rest but that isn't the case.

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Pacific Islands Forum dances around Nauru tensions

Pacific Islands Forum leaders are set to revisit their unity pact, the Suva Agreement, at their leaders' retreat in the Cook Islands.

AAP

Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa warns China not the only outside power looking to increase their presence in Pacific

During a visit to Canberra, Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa warns that China is not the only major power that may want to secure further military access to the Pacific "under the guise of protecting assets".

ABC News

Baron Waqa's tenure as Nauru's president has been called a 'very dark chapter'. He'll now lead the Pacific Islands Forum

The controversial choice of former Nauruan president Baron Waqa as the Pacific Islands Forum's next secretary-general is attracting criticism from human rights groups and former political opponents.

ABC News

Pacific Islands Fourm 'one big family' as leaders meet and select new leader amid intense US-China competition

Former Nauru president Baron Waqa is set to take the reins of the Pacific's peak regional body, after a special leaders meeting in Fiji.

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