Knowra Pacific Islands Forum Pacific Islands Forum The Pacific Islands Forum is an intergovernmental organization that brings Pacific Island countries and territories together to coordinate regional cooperation, development, and security.
Forum Leaders Meeting : The annual summit where Pacific Islands Forum leaders set regional priorities and make collective decisions. Leaders use this meeting to endorse the Forum’s principal regional agenda.
South Pacific Forum : The organization founded in 1971 by independent Pacific states, renamed the Pacific Islands Forum in 2000. This was the Forum’s original name and founding institutional form.
2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent : The Forum’s long-term regional strategy for Pacific peoples, ocean stewardship, security, and prosperity through 2050. It sets a shared framework for the Forum’s work across regional priorities.
Melanesian Spearhead Group : A subregional organization of Melanesian governments and the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front. It focuses on Melanesian cooperation rather than the Forum’s broader Pacific membership.
Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat : The Forum’s administrative body, based in Suva, Fiji, that supports regional cooperation and implements leaders’ decisions. It coordinates the work that carries leaders’ decisions beyond the annual summit.
Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara : Fiji’s first prime minister and president, who was a leading advocate for Pacific regional cooperation. Mara helped establish the South Pacific Forum as a Pacific-led political institution.
Boe Declaration on Regional Security : A 2018 Pacific Islands Forum declaration defining regional security broadly, including climate change and human security. It articulates the Forum’s regional security approach and its emphasis on climate change.
Pacific Community : An international development organization providing scientific and technical services to Pacific countries and territories. It emphasizes technical and development services, unlike the Forum’s leaders-led political coordination.
Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency : A regional organization that helps Pacific countries manage and develop tuna fisheries. It is a specialized agency created by Forum members to strengthen regional fisheries cooperation.
Pacific Islands Producers Association : A regional association formed in 1965 to coordinate Pacific producers’ interests in the copra trade. Its regional cooperation helped precede the Forum’s creation.
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