Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will travel to Tonga from 27 to 29 August 2024 for the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders\u2019 Meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This will be his third PIF Leaders\u2019 Meeting, and his first visit to Tonga as Prime Minister.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Pacific Islands Forum is our region\u2019s top multilateral body and the PIF Leaders Meeting is the most important annual meeting of leaders of all PIF member states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prime Minister Albanese will join other Pacific leaders to discuss important issues affecting our region, including climate resilience, education, health and regional security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Prime Minister will be joined by the Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Pat Conroy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Pacific Islands Forum Leaders\u2019 Meeting is central to safeguarding our region\u2019s collective prosperity and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is important that Pacific leaders meet each year to discuss our shared aspirations and challenges \u2014 and work together towards Pacific-led solutions that benefit us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAustralia understands that climate change remains the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security and wellbeing of Pacific Island communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thank Prime Minister Hu\u2019akavameiliku for hosting the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum and welcome his leadership in helping deliver tangible and practical outcomes for the region.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will travel to Tonga from 27 to 29 August 2024 for the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders\u2019 Meeting. This will be his third PIF Leaders\u2019 Meeting, and his first visit to Tonga as Prime Minister. The Pacific Islands Forum is our region\u2019s top multilateral body and the PIF Leaders Meeting is … Continue reading “53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders\u2019 Meeting”<\/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-28705","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\/28705","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=28705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28706,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28705\/revisions\/28706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Prime Minister Anthony Albanese<\/h2>\n\n\n\n