Overseas ministry spokesperson Park Il speaks throughout a press briefing in Seoul, Thursday. Yonhap
The highest diplomats of Korea and Pacific Island Nations (PICs) will maintain talks subsequent week in Seoul to debate methods to advertise cooperation in varied fields, together with local weather change, the international ministry stated Thursday.
Overseas Minister Cho Hyun will co-host the sixth Korea-Pacific Islands international ministers’ assembly on Tuesday with Peter Shannel Agovaka, the highest diplomat of Solomon Islands, based on the ministry.
This 12 months’s assembly will contain all 18 member nations and territories of the Pacific Islands Discussion board (PIF), together with 14 PICs, Australia and New Zealand. The PIF is an intergovernmental physique geared toward enhancing cooperation amongst 18 island nations within the area.
Contributors plan to debate methods to bolster growth cooperation between Korea and Pacific island nations and increase cooperation in various areas, corresponding to local weather change, fishery and personnel exchanges.
On the margins of the assembly, Cho will maintain separate talks along with his counterparts from some PICs, together with Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands and Palau, the ministry added.
