Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sitiveni Rabuka will not attend todays Pacific Foreign Ministers meeting in Suva.
The Pacific Islands Forum has confirmed Fiji will be represented by Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, Special Envoy of the Office of the Prime Minister.
Ratu Inoke will join counterparts from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Solomon Islands, and other Forum members.
The full list of Ministers attending is:
The meeting will be attended by:
- E HRH Crown Prince Tupouto’a Ulukalala (Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tonga)
- Penny Wong (Senator /Minister – Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia)
- Tingika Elikana (Minister – Foreign Affairs and Immigration, Cook Islands)
- Ricky F Cantero (Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs, Federated States of Micronesia)
- E Ratu Inoke Kubuabola (Special Envoy of the Office of Prime Minster, Fiji)
- Heimana Bastian (Advisor for Bureau of Pacific Affairs, European and Pacific Affairs, Federated States of Micronesia)
- E Tukabu R Tauai (Kiribati High Commissioner – Kiribati High Commission)
- Lionel Rouwen Aingimea (Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Foreign Affairs and Trade, Nauru)
- Gaston Wadrawane (Official Representative of New Caledonia to Fiji)
- Rt. Winston Peters (Minister of Foreign Affairs, New Zealand)
- Crossley Tatui (Minister, Ministry of Finance and Infrastructure, Niue)
- Justin Tkatchenko (Minister for Foreign Affairs , Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Papua New Guinea)
- Gustav Ngiracheluol Aitaro (Minister of State, Ministry of State, Palau)
- Gerald Zackios (Minister, Ministry of Education, Sports & Training -Republic of the Marshall Islands)
- Peseta Simi (Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Samoa)
- Paulson Panapa (Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Labour & Trade, Tuvalu)
- Peter Agovaka (Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Solomon Islands)
- Marc Ati (Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and External Trade, Vanuatu)