Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will tomorrow meet Mr Henry Puna, the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum, in Canberra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the pre-eminent institution of the Pacific family, the Forum plays a critical role in bringing Pacific nations together to address shared challenges and opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Prime Minister and Secretary General will discuss Pacific regionalism and Pacific Leaders’ priorities as set out in the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent<\/em>, including climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This meeting follows the Prime Minister’s warm and productive discussions with Forum Chair, Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, last month at the G7 in Hiroshima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Secretary General Puna will also meet with Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Minister for International Development and the Pacific Pat Conroy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Australia deeply values our membership of the Pacific Islands Forum. We are proud to be a founding member of the Forum and contribute to practical outcomes to support the Pacific’s priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I look forward to meeting with Secretary General Puna and discussing our shared approach to regional peace, prosperity and resilience.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will tomorrow meet Mr Henry Puna, the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum, in Canberra. As the pre-eminent institution of the Pacific family, the Forum plays a critical role in bringing Pacific nations together to address shared challenges and opportunities. The Prime Minister and Secretary General will discuss Pacific regionalism … Continue reading “PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM: AN ENDURING COMMITMENT”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21400,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399\/revisions\/21400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Prime Minister Albanese said:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n