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COVID-19: 51st Pacific Islands Forum meeting postponed

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Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat’s Secretary General Dame Meg Taylor during the opening of the 50th PIF Leaders Meeting in Funafuti, Tuvalu. Picture: AQELA SUSU/FILE

The annual Pacific Islands Forum meeting is being postponed to 2021.

The Government of Vanuatu has formally advised of its intention to defer the 51st Pacific Islands Forum meeting scheduled for 4 – 7 August 2020 to next year, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum and Prime Minister of Tuvalu, the Honorable Kausea Natano, will consult the Forum Membership and advise on the next meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum, states the Forum Secretariat.

The Pacific Islands Forum is the region’s premier political and economic policy organisation.

It was founded in 1971, it comprises 18 members : Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

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