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08 April 2008, Regarding the Turkey-Pacific Islands Ministers of Foreign Affairs meeting in Istanbul. (Unofficial Translation)

The Turkey-Pacific Islands Ministers of Foreign Affairs meeting hosted by Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Babacan will be convened in Istanbul on 9-11 April 2008 with the aim to develop Turkey`s relations with countries in the South Pacific region and to strengthen cooperation at both the bilateral and multilateral levels.

The sixteen full member countries of the Pacific Islands Forum, the most important regional organisation encompassing the states in the region, have been invited to the meeting. The Cook Islands, the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Samoa, Fiji, Palau, Micronesia, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu will be represented at Ministerial level and the others at the level of high representative.

At the Conference, which is of special importance for being the first to be held in Turkey with the participation of Foreign Ministers of the Pacific Islands, the topics of social and economic development, development assistance, climate change and its effects, coping with natural disasters, as well as tourism will be taken up, in the context of possibilities for bilateral and multilateral cooperation.

Republic of Turkey - Ministry of Foreign Affairs