Samoa

2022 - 5 - 29

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China signs deal with Samoa as Australia vows Pacific Islands plan (WTVB News)

SYDNEY (Reuters) - China's foreign minister signed a deal with Samoa on Saturday to strengthen diplomatic relations, while Australia's new leader said...

Also Saturday, Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said he had a “wonderful meeting” with Australia’s Penny Wong, who had visited days after taking office to show the new government’s attention to the Pacific Islands. “Fiji is not anyone’s backyard – we are a part of a Pacific family,” Bainimarama wrote on Twitter https://twitter.com/FijiPM/status/1530265872354332673?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet, posting a picture of himself and Penny Wong shaking hands. China’s Wang Yi, on a tour of the Pacific seeking a 10-nation deal on security and trade, finished a visit to Samoa, where he met Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataafa and signed documents including an “economic and technical cooperation agreement”, Samoa said in a statement https://www.samoagovt.ws/2022/05/press-release-samoa-visit-of-the-state-councilor-and-foreign-minister-of-the-peoples-republic-of-china-h-e-mr-wang-yi-27-28th-may-2022.

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China's Foreign Minister Visits Samoa to Deepen Pacific Ties (Voice of America)

Australia and the United States are closely watching the 10-day trip by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

It described China as a key development partner for Samoa, providing infrastructure for health, education and government, human resource development, sports development and technical assistance in agriculture. He started his trip on Thursday in the Solomon Islands. China's foreign minister met with the leaders of Samoa on Saturday on the third stop of an island-hopping tour aimed at deepening China's ties with Pacific nations.

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China signs diplomatic deal with Samoa (Victor Harbor Times)

China's foreign minister has signed a deal with Samoa to strengthen diplomatic relations. China is building on a security pact it recently signed with ...

Mr Wang is headed to Fiji, where he is expected to push for a regional deal in a meeting he is to host on Monday. Australian Associated Press "Samoa and the People's Republic of China will continue to pursue greater collaboration that will deliver on joint interests and commitments," it said. China's foreign minister has signed a deal with Samoa to strengthen diplomatic relations.

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Samoa, China agree on win-win cooperation as Beijing seeks 10 ... (ABC News)

China's Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, signs a deal with Samoa to strengthen diplomatic relations, while Australia's Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, ...

Samoa, China agree on mutually beneficial, win-win cooperation (新华网)

APIA, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Samoan Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa met with visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang ...

The Samoan prime minister expressed her approval of Wang's remarks, and said that coping with climate change has become an important field of cooperation between Pacific island countries and China, expecting that the cooperation center between China and Pacific island countries on climate change will play an active role. Wang said the Chinese side has established a cooperation center for China and Pacific island countries on climate change, and that China is willing to continue to help small island countries strengthen their capacity building in tackling climate change within the framework of the South-South cooperation. China has always advocated that all countries are equal regardless of their sizes and strengths, Wang said, noting that as the world's largest developing country, China has always stood on the side of the developing countries and worked to seek justice for smaller nations, Wang said.

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China inks deal on economic technologies with Samoa during FM's ... (Global Times)

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa on Saturday - the third stop on Wang's visit to the ...

Wang stressed that China's cooperation with developing and Pacific island nations does not target the third party nor will it seek exclusiveness. China is willing to achieve development and prosperity with developing countries and to make the world fairer. The Samoan Prime Minister also noted that cooperation with China in all sectors has produced noticeable achievements, helping Samoa to promote its infrastructure and agricultural technologies.

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Coalition 'dropped the ball' on Pacific, Albanese says as Samoa ... (The Guardian)

Prime minister says Labor 'won't drop the ball' as Samoa signs agreement with China; the Greens' Stephen Bates claims victory in seat of Brisbane.

Australia has been the partner of choice for a long period of time in the Pacific and we continue to do that.” He says the previous government had a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade submission calling for increased aid to Australia’s Pacific neighbours but did not act on it. “I worded that badly.” “We will be proactive in the region and we want to engage. It’s just a reflection of what people are feeling. We got 52% of the two-party-preferred vote. And that’s all politics really is, just people expressing what they’re feeling. Albanese is asked why Labor’s share of the primary vote was so low at the election. Some of this analysis is rather strange. He says he is “confident Labor will have 76 seats on the floor of the House of Representatives” that “represents a majority government”. You know, we’re a generous country. And we’re better than that.

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