Pacific Islands leaders meet with climate change, security on agenda
The summit excludes key dialogue partners amid China-Pacific tensions and focuses on climate finance, security, and a new Pacific Resilience Facility to support disaster response, leaders said.
- Pacific Island leaders began their annual summit in the Solomon Islands, focusing on climate change and security amid a U.S.-China influence battle.
- The summit is taking place without two dozen donor partners and foreign observers due to a dispute over Taiwan's attendance.
- Leaders are expected to adopt the Fiji-proposed 'Ocean of Peace' Declaration, highlighting climate change and regional cooperation.
- Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele emphasized the urgency for regional unity and claimed sovereignty amid external pressures.
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Pacific Islands leaders meet to discuss security, climate change
Pacific Islands leaders began a week-long summit on Monday in the Solomon Islands, where they are expected to endorse an Ocean of Peace declaration amid concern over rising tensions between the United States and China.

China 'elephant in the room' at fraught Pacific Islands summit
Pacific Islands leaders are meeting in the Solomons this week for an influential summit clouded by differences over China's mounting influence in the region that risks scuppering regional cooperation.
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