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March 21, 2025
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The parties involved in talks aimed at resolving an impasse over Bougainville’s push for independence are planning to meet several more times before a deadline in June. The leaders of Papua New Guinea and Bougainville have been meeting all week in Port Moresby, with former New Zealand Governor-General ... <a title="PNG and Bougainville to hold more talks on independence issue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/21/png-and-bougainville-to-hold-more-talks-on-independence-issue/" aria-label="Read more about PNG and Bougainville to hold more talks on independence issue">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2023
By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Prime Minister James Marape has made two foreign policy gaffes in the space of a week that may come back to bite him as Papua New Guinea prepares for its 48th anniversary of independence this Saturday. Critics have been stunned by the opening of a PNG embassy ... <a title="PNG’s Marape makes foreign policy gaffes over Israel, West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/14/pngs-marape-makes-foreign-policy-gaffes-over-israel-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Marape makes foreign policy gaffes over Israel, West Papua">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2022
RNZ Pacific Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele says the country joined an agreement with the United States only after changes to wording relating to China. He said the country did not want to be forced to choose sides, and the Pacific should be seen as a region of peace and cooperation. Manele was in ... <a title="Honiara doesn’t want to be forced to choose sides, says Foreign Minister" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/06/honiara-doesnt-want-to-be-forced-to-choose-sides-says-foreign-minister/" aria-label="Read more about Honiara doesn’t want to be forced to choose sides, says Foreign Minister">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2022
RNZ Pacific The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting has ended in Rwanda with Samoa confirmed as the next host of the meeting. Samoa’s hosting of the 2024 event will be the first time a Pacific member country will host CHOGM Samoa’s Prime Minister, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa attended the meeting in Rwanda. CHOGM brings together leaders ... <a title="Samoa chosen to host next CHOGM meeting in 2024" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/27/samoa-chosen-to-host-next-chogm-meeting-in-2024/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa chosen to host next CHOGM meeting in 2024">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Professor Steven Ratuva The West and China continue to exert influence over the Pacific region. But discussions of Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are increasingly patronising, framing them as vulnerable, and omitting their agency. In the battle for geopolitical influence and supremacy in the Pacific, the two most visible antagonists, the Anglo-West and China, ... <a title="Steven Ratuva: Pacific agency: A devalued political capital?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/27/steven-ratuva-pacific-agency-a-devalued-political-capital/" aria-label="Read more about Steven Ratuva: Pacific agency: A devalued political capital?">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2022
RNZ Pacific Samoa and China do not have any plans for military ties, Samoa Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa says. Fiamē — who is on a three-day trip to Aotearoa — is making her first official bilateral trip abroad since becoming leader last year. Her visit marks 60 years of diplomatic relations between New Zealand ... <a title="Samoa and China have no plans for military ties, says Fiamē" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/16/samoa-and-china-have-no-plans-for-military-ties-says-fiame/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa and China have no plans for military ties, says Fiamē">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2022
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific regional correspondent A senior Solomon Islands MP has warned that the controversial security agreement with China could result in action among local opponents of the deal. The government in Honiara signed a controversial security agreement with China despite concern from local political figures, as well as Australia, New Zealand and ... <a title="MP warns Solomons-China security pact could ‘inflame tensions’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/20/mp-warns-solomons-china-security-pact-could-inflame-tensions/" aria-label="Read more about MP warns Solomons-China security pact could ‘inflame tensions’">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2022
RNZ News The long-serving New Zealand MP Louisa Wall has fired a broadside at her own Labour Party as she leaves Parliament to take up a Pacific diplomacy role — using her valedictory speech to accuse the party president of leading a corrupt process. Wall is leaving politics after 14 years — citing a legal ... <a title="Departing Labour MP Louisa Wall: ‘This was not entirely my choice’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/15/departing-labour-mp-louisa-wall-this-was-not-entirely-my-choice/" aria-label="Read more about Departing Labour MP Louisa Wall: ‘This was not entirely my choice’">Read more</a>
