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The move came as the body began talks on several important issues, including climate change, economic challenges and Beijing's push for closer economic and ...

International, MNA | Kiribati has quit the premier bloc of Pacific island nations, fracturing the group just as its leaders launch a summit to grapple with ...

Regional powers Australia and New Zealand — both members of the Pacific Island Forum — have stressed the bloc’s importance in deciding the security strategy of the region. Beijing’s increasing influence in the region — notably a secretive security pact with Solomon Islands in April — has fed concern in the United States and its allies about its intentions. Kiribati has quit the premier bloc of Pacific island nations, fracturing the group just as its leaders launch a summit to grapple with rising seas and China’s security ambitions in the region.

The withdrawal of the remote Pacific island nation of Kiribati from the region's key diplomatic group has overshadowed the Pacific Islands Forum as leaders ...

Kiribati also wanted the meeting delayed. Kofe said the “geopolitical competition and tug of war that we are seeing right now between China and the U.S.” had been discussed in Friday’s meeting, and ministers had said “the Pacific really needs to define their future themselves and the terms in which we will engage China and the U.S.” “Kiribati has taken the sovereign decision to withdraw from the Pacific Island Forum with immediate effect,” said a letter from Kiribati to the forum secretariat, circulated to several Pacific media outlets on Sunday.

The withdrawal of Kiribati coupled with the growing tension between China and the United States has overshadowed the Pacific Islands Forum.

"Maintaining the unity and solidarity of the Pacific family is critical for us to be able to navigate many of these issues that we are facing," he said. "Maintaining the unity and solidarity of the Pacific family is critical for us to be able to navigate many of these issues that we are facing,"Kofe "This geopolitical competition will continue and it is important the Pacific focuses on the issues that are critical to the Pacific - climate change and the conservation of our resources," Kofe said.

Kiribati has quit the premier bloc of Pacific island nations, fracturing the group just as its leaders launch a summit to grapple with rising seas and ...

The island forum "is the central architecture for our region and losing Kiribati would obviously not be a good thing, and that is why we are working hard to avoid that," he told Australian national broadcaster ABC. Regional powers Australia and New Zealand -- both members of the Pacific Island Forum -- have stressed the bloc's importance in deciding the security strategy of the region. Beijing's increasing influence in the region -- notably a secretive security pact with Solomon Islands in April -- has fed concern in the United States and its allies about its intentions.

Tensions between China and the US, and the withdrawal of the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, have overshadowed the Pacific Islands Forum as leaders ...

“It is an indisputable fact that the Diaoyutai Islands are an inherent part of the territory of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Any unilateral action taken by other parties will not change the fact,” ministry spokeswoman Joanne Ou (歐江安) said. Citing the government’s stance in calling on all parties concerned to resolve disputes in a peaceful manner, Ou said the government was aware of Taiwan recorded its first local cases of the Omicron subvariant BA.5 of SARS-CoV-2, two family members of imported cases who arrived from the US, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday. NTUH Department of Pediatrics director Lee Wang-tso (李旺祚) said the hospital worked with more than a dozen other hospitals to established a reporting system for people aged 18 or younger who were diagnosed with COVID-19. Among the 1,163 cases in its database, 404 were hospitalized, 148 of whom, or 37 percent, exhibited neurological symptoms, including 13 cases, Two of them had a stroke after developing encephalitis, the hospital told a news conference on Friday morning to promote COVID-19 vaccinations for children. “As such, restrictions on inbound travelers should be eased.” The purpose of requiring a negative PCR

The United States and Kiribati have shared a long friendship based on common values and rooted in democracy. Emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic is a testament ...

The United States and Kiribati have shared a long friendship based on common values and rooted in democracy. We stand with Kiribati in combating the climate crisis and ensuring the protection of marine resources as we shape a more free and open future for the Pacific. Our 1979 Treaty of Friendship, signed in the early years of your independence, is the foundation for our shared pursuit for prosperity. Emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic is a testament to your country’s resilience and should be celebrated as well.

Leaders from the Pacific will meet in Fiji this week, with climate change on top of the agenda. Kiribati has announced a shock exit from the Pacific Islands ...

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Kiribati has withdrawn from the 51st Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting that began yesterday in Suva. In a letter posted on Twitter, Kiribati President ...

Mr Puna will be replaced by a Micronesian candidate when his term finishes. He said another reason for Kiribati’s inability to participate in the forum was that the dates of the forum coincided with Kiribati’s National Day celebrations and he had sought for the meeting to be deferred but his request was not considered or even acknowledged. Under the agreement, Micronesian leaders have abandoned their demand for Mr Puna to step down from his position of secretary-general of PIFS, instead allowing him to serve out his term until 2024.