Pacific Aid Bolstered as Leaders Head to New Caledonia

Published on August 10, 2024

Australia and New Zealand will help build and stock warehouses with disaster aid across the Pacific as regional leaders prepare to head to New Caledonia following deadly riots.  Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) foreign ministers met in Fiji on Aug. 9 ahead of the leaders’ meeting in Tonga from Aug. 26. French ambassador to the Pacific Veronique Roger-Lacan spoke with the forum’s chair and secretary-general, accepting a request from three leaders to visit New Caledonia.  The French territory was engulfed by riots in May, which left 10 people dead, following controversial voting reforms passed in Paris that the Indigenous Kanak population argued would water down its voice....

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