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Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataafa, as Chair of the Alliance of Small Islands States stated there was no use making a commitment if there was no intention of delivering.She stressed the role of political will from the international community to drive the SIDS blueprint on the journey toward resil...

Cook Islands is standing firm with its family of over 35 Small Islands Developing States in Antigua and Barbuda at the Fourth International Conference on SIDS, charting a course towards resilient prosperity.

Samoa is passing the baton to Antigua and Barbuda this month as host of the Fourth International Conference on Small Islands Developing States.Over 3,000 registered delegates will descend upon the Caribbean islands to chart a course toward resilient prosperity for all Small Islands Developing Sta...

"Our Pacific region is home to independent experts and skilled personnel, that are familiar with this region, its history, its people, and importantly, its context, that can support all parties to move this process forward."

Taking centre stage at the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Change Convention over the weekend in Dubai, Prime Minister Mark Brown called upon world leaders to consider those on the frontlines of an environmental war ‘we did not initiate’.

United Kingdom Minister of State for Indo-Pacific, Rt. Hon. Anne-Marie Trevelyan arrived in Tonga last night, for her first ministerial visit since the British High Commission in Tonga re-opened in 2020. Minister Trevelyan participated in the 52nd Pacific Island Forum Dialogue Partners Day, last week, in Rarotonga. “It was a really effective meeting,” she said.

Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. Small Islands Developing States are on the frontline of the climate crisis.  Its impacts bear down on our shores with little reprieve. Rising and warming seas. Changes in precipitation in temperature rates are unseen and never felt before. More intense extreme ...