First ever Government vehicle handed over to the people of East Pentecost in Vanuatu by Minister of Health Hon. Silas Bule Melve, witnessed by the Director General of the Ministry of Health, Mr Russel Tamata. History made today after 40 years. #Vanuatu
I have written to the Chinese Ambassador requesting that China reduce emissions and stop using and promoting coal. All PIF members should make the same direct request https://t.co/NJrMBjXJXP
Foreign Minister Manele getting ready to be interviewed by one of the media covering the Third China - Pacific Islands Economic development and Cooperation Forum yesterday.
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are more vulnerable to natural disasters and often rely on imports due to limited natural resources. 🏝️
🎥 Here are 5 ways @FAO is helping #SIDS achieve food security 👇
#climatechange#foodsecurity
Media freedom is under threat in Australia: from the failure to stand up for #Assange, to police raids on @abcnews, to our failing #FOI system. Delighted to contribute to @smh on why reform is so needed to mark the #righttoknow campaign launch: https://t.co/gGznQZoZAM #auspol
Vice Premier of China and Solomon Islands Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeremiah Manele addressing the Forum and embracing South South cooperation based on the principles of mutual respect for each other’s sovereignty for mutual development benefit and prosperity.
"China has not engaged in deliberate “debt-trap diplomacy” in the Pacific, but the burgeoning scale of China’s lending, and institutional weakness within Pacific states, pose clear risks for small states being overwhelmed by debt". https://t.co/10gkoRPxVN
I was delighted to hear @ItaButtrose announce last night at the @LowyInstitute Media Awards dinner that @abcnews@QandA will be making a special #Pacific episode on December 2, broadcasting from Suva, #Fiji. I need to get myself in that audience!
Solomon Islands and Kiribati joins the Third China - Pacific Islands Economic Development and Cooperations in Samoa for the first time today. The Forum had its first meeting in Fiji in 2006 and 2013 in China. New chapter in Solomon Is - China relations.
“When the government keeps the truth from you, what are they covering up?” An important #righttoknow campaign launched in Australia - the first public awareness campaign on media freedom bringing together a coalition of media groups: https://t.co/3K14avfIPS #auspol
“We, the children of Vanuatu are standing up for our rights. How will you help us achieve this?” Kaira, 12, and Penny, 12, asked Prime Minister, Hon. Charlot Salwai, this question on behalf of all ni-Vanuatu children.
#ForEveryChild, every right #CRC30
British fashion designer & businesswoman Vivienne Westwood joins @BennyWenda plus members of @FreeWestPapua Free West Papua Campaign & Extinction Rebellion activists protesting outside London HQ of BP, where they were delivering a report on the company's activities in #WestPapua
Outside the London headquarters of @BP_plc with Vivienne Westwood, Raki Ap, Joe Corre and activists from #ExtinctionRebellion, highlighting the crimes against the environment that BP are committing in occupied #WestPapua.