The Solomon Islands has issued a moratorium on all nations requesting to send in naval ships while it works on new processes for military vessels entering port | FarrahTomazin
: The Solomon Islands has issued a moratorium on all nations requesting to send in naval ships while it works on new processes for military vessels entering port.
A spokesman for Sogavare earlier denied the reports of a moratorium. He told Reuters that Sogavare would make a speech on Tuesday welcoming a US navy hospital ship, Mercy, which arrived in Honiara on Monday for a two-week mission.Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in May.
Weeks after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a delegation to the island nation in defiance of Beijing, two US warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday for the first time since the visit, with navy officials describing the move as a demonstration of its “commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific”.
“We’re going to do what we can in accordance with the law to help Taiwan defend itself, as well as to defend our own national interest just as you saw over the weekend when two navy cruisers conducted the Taiwan strait transit in international waters.”, undertaking what the Navy’s 7th fleet described as a “routine transit”.
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