A former New Zealand diplomat, who helped draw up a review of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands, says RAMSI needs to develop a more collaborative relationship with the Solomons' government.
Neil Walter says this will help to allay Solomon Islands' fears that the mission is a threat to the country's sovereignty.
The review wants more consultation and better reporting, while a Ministerial Standing Committee made up of regional foreign ministers, will provide oversight and governance of the mission.
Mr Walter says RAMSI, the Pacific Islands Forum and the Solomons government should be working together more effectively in planning and conducting RAMSI's operations .
"Designing a kind of broad exit strategy. Setting at least tentative time lines in which different aspects of the operation will be phased down, or phased out, and charting progress against those objectives on a collaborative, joint basis. So that there is no suggestion of any outside interference, but rather of outside partnership and support."
