Security is a priority in the region. It has been so since 1971, when the earlier version of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) – the South Pacific Forum (SPF) first met in Wellington on 5-7 August that year. At that first meeting, ‘attention was drawn to the forthcoming series of nuclear tests to be conducted by France in the South Pacific’.
Forum Leaders obviously chose to be proactive in this matter as best as they could. They ‘expressed deep regret that atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons
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