Pacific Islands Forum

Pacific Islands Forum as "the South Pacific Forum", established in August 5, 1971, in the New Zealand capital Wellington in 2000 October, "the South Pacific Forum" was officially renamed the "Pacific Islands forum". In 1971 August, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Nauru, the Cook islands and Australia in the New Zealand capital Wellington held the 7 meeting of the parties to the South Pacific, the establishment of the "South Pacific Forum", and decided to hold a meeting every year. In 2000 October, officially renamed the "Pacific Islands forum". The Pacific Islands Forum's aim is to strengthen the forum members in trade, economic development, aviation, shipping, telecommunications, energy, tourism, education and other areas of common interest and other cooperation and coordination problems. In recent years, the forum has strengthened coordination and regional political, security and other fields of foreign policy cooperation. In 2012 August, the forty-third session of the Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting held in the Cook islands.

The Pacific Islands Forum has 16 members: Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, Tang Jia, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Micronesia, Solomon islands, Nauru, Tuvalu, the Marshall Islands, the Cook islands, Niue, Palau. The forum leaders meeting once a year, held in each member country or area turns. From 1989 onwards, the forum invited Chinese, USA, British, France, Japan and Canada and other countries attended the forum leaders meeting of the dialogue after the meeting. From 1990 onwards, Chinese has sent 22 government representatives to attend the dialogue meeting. At present, there are 14 dialogue partners forum.

Organization: in 1972 the establishment of permanent establishment -- South Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (SPEC), renamed in 1988, the Forum Secretariat, based in Suva, fiji. A secretary of the forum, the forum members produced by government representatives vote, responsible for the forum members; under secretary general, Department of employment contract, assist the Secretary General in his work. Under the political and legal affairs department, international trade and investment, our development and economic policy, our services, our collaborative (administrative), a director of the company. The Secretariat headquarters there were about 70 officials and employees. In Sydney, Oakland with the trade commissioner, a Pacific Island Centre in Tokyo, which opened in 2002's trade representative office in Beijing, by the end of 2003 in Geneva to set up representative to the world trade organization.

The Secretariat budget by the Australian and New Zealand each to pay 1/3, and the rest by the other island members share. Currently available donor countries, regions and organizations to the Secretariat has 15: China, Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, French Polynesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, the United Kingdom, the United Nations Development Programme, Chinese Taiwan. The Secretariat and 9 relatively independent mechanism Pacific Council of the organization (CROP), chaired by Secretary of the forum. All 9 organizations: Fiji School of Medicine (FSchM), the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), the Pacific Islands Development Agency (PIDP), Education Review Committee of the South Pacific (SPBEA), the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC), the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), the South Pacific Tourism Organization (SPTO), South University of the Pacific (USP).

Contact information

Tel: 6793312600

E-mail: info@forumsec.org.fj