26 Apr 2010

MSG officals meet in Port Vila to determine agenda for leaders' summit in Nadi in July

7:47 pm on 26 April 2010

Officials of the Melanesian Spearhead Group are meeting today and tomorrow to determine the agenda for the next leaders' summit.

The leaders of Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea are to meet in Nadi in Fiji in July.

New Caledonia's FLNKS has observer status at the MSG and the Fiji interim leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama wants to bring in other nations, such as Kiribati and Tuvalu, as observers.