Sitiveni Rabuka says island countries must be ‘zone of non-aligned territories’ and hopes big powers will avoid military conflict
The Pacific islands should be a “zone of peace”, Fiji’s prime minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, has said, adding that he hopes aRabuka was speaking after attending a summit meeting of several Pacific island leaders, where climate change and regional security dominated the agenda. The leaders of, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and New Caledonia’s ruling FLNKS party met in Vanuatu on Thursday.
The Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders have yet to publicly release a joint declaration on regional security that was signed at the summit, however Rabuka said discussions focused on the rivalry between the US and“They are trying to polarise the Pacific into their own camps, so we have to be very certain that whatever we do, we are mindful of the collective need of the Pacific to be a zone of peace, a zone of non-aligned territories,” he said in a video statement released by Fiji’s government...
The five countries, strategically located in the South Pacific and pivotal during the second world war, are again at the centre of a geopolitical contest: Solomon Islands
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