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Pacific Island Forum Gets Down to Business

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Pacific Island Forum Gets Down to Business

By Raiatea Tahana-Reese

9/12/2011Updated: 10/1/2015

<a><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/09/124006945.jpg" alt="Pacific leaders (Back row L-R) Prime Ministers Henry Puna of Cook Islands and Peter O'Neill of Papua New Guinea, Jurelang Zedkaia Pres. Marshall Islands, Lord Tu'ivakano PM of Tonga, Toke Talagi Premier of Niue, Emanuel Mori Pres. of Micronesia, Willy Telavi PM of Tuvalu, Johnson Toribiong Pres. of Talauon, Anote Tong Pres. of Kiribati and ( Front row (L-R) Prime Ministers, Danny Philip Prime of Solomon Islands and Julia Gillard of Australia, Tuiloma Neroni Slade Secretary General, John Key PM of New Zealand, Vanuatu Representive Athy Sineon, Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi, PM of Samoa and Marcus Stephen Pres. of Nauru in Auckland, for the 42nd Pacific Island Forum. (Bradley Ambrose/AFP/Getty Images)" title="Pacific leaders (Back row L-R) Prime Ministers Henry Puna of Cook Islands and Peter O'Neill of Papua New Guinea, Jurelang Zedkaia Pres. Marshall Islands, Lord Tu'ivakano PM of Tonga, Toke Talagi Premier of Niue, Emanuel Mori Pres. of Micronesia, Willy Telavi PM of Tuvalu, Johnson Toribiong Pres. of Talauon, Anote Tong Pres. of Kiribati and ( Front row (L-R) Prime Ministers, Danny Philip Prime of Solomon Islands and Julia Gillard of Australia, Tuiloma Neroni Slade Secretary General, John Key PM of New Zealand, Vanuatu Representive Athy Sineon, Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi, PM of Samoa and Marcus Stephen Pres. of Nauru in Auckland, for the 42nd Pacific Island Forum. (Bradley Ambrose/AFP/Getty Images)" width="575" class="size-medium wp-image-1797921"/></a>

Pacific leaders (Back row L-R) Prime Ministers Henry Puna of Cook Islands and Peter O'Neill of Papua New Guinea, Jurelang Zedkaia Pres. Marshall Islands, Lord Tu'ivakano PM of Tonga, Toke Talagi Premier of Niue, Emanuel Mori Pres. of Micronesia, Willy Telavi PM of Tuvalu, Johnson Toribiong Pres. of Talauon, Anote Tong Pres. of Kiribati and ( Front row (L-R) Prime Ministers, Danny Philip Prime of Solomon Islands and Julia Gillard of Australia, Tuiloma Neroni Slade Secretary General, John Key PM of New Zealand, Vanuatu Representive Athy Sineon, Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi, PM of Samoa and Marcus Stephen Pres. of Nauru in Auckland, for the 42nd Pacific Island Forum. (Bradley Ambrose/AFP/Getty Images)

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