A senior Biden administration official said that the US was “disappointed” about the Solomon Islands’ Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare’s decision to “not come to this very special summit”.

Chinese police will arrive in the Solomon Islands this month to help provide security for the Pacific Games - as Anthony Albanese attempts to mend relations with the superpower. Prime Minister ...

BEIJING--Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare will visit China next week, highlighting the accelerating contest between Beijing and Washington for influence in the South Pacific ...

In 2021, Sogavare, 68, a career politician from the northeastern island of Choiseul, announced plans to suspend the 2023 election to manage the Games, provoking violent anti-government riots that ...

Visiting Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, left, shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Li Qiang after they witnessed signing on agreement for both countries at the Great Hall ...

U.S. President Joe Biden poses for a family photo with leaders of the Pacific Island Country Summit at the North Portico of the White House, Sep. 29, 2022. Last year, due to complications around ...

Despite domestic political headwinds, Biden’s engagement at the second U.S.-Pacific Islands summit was welcomed, as were newly announced funds, initiatives and an expanding diplomatic footprint.

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Just before the second summit between the US and the Pacific Islands Forum at the White House in September, the US hosts took Pacific leaders to an American football game.

Christopher Luxon is not attending this week’s Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in the Cook Islands, which is disappointing and a missed opportunity, foreign policy experts said. Following ...

The Cook Islands and Niue have a combined population of less than 20,000, but form a vast economic zone in the South Pacific US President Joe Biden said on Monday that United States officially ...