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PIFS update to the BWC universalization workshop for the Pacific region

12 – 13 Dec 2018

Nadi, Fiji

Context Key development

• 2018 PIF Leaders’ priorities, focusing on

the Boe Declaration

Working together to address common interests through regionalism

• The South Pacific

Nuclear Free Zone Treaty of 1985 (Rarotonga Treaty)

• Regional Assistance

Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI), 2003 – 2017

• Pacific Regional

Assistance to Nauru (PRAN), 2004 – 2009

• COP21 negotiations of

the Paris Agreement, 2015

“Building a Strong Pacific: Our People, Our Islands, Our Will” 49th Pacific Islands Forum

3 – 6 September 2018 Yaren, Nauru

Our shared challenge – securing the Blue Pacific

• Combined land mass of

8.5 million square km

• Combined ocean area of 37

million square km

• Ratio land/sea = 1:4
• Ratio land/sea excluding

Australia and New Zealand = 1: 48

• Long distances between

islands, small land areas, large maritime areas to monitor

• Not enough resources to

effectively monitor exclusive economic zones

• POROUS BORDERS

The Boe Declaration, 2018

• Recognises that climate change

remains the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security and wellbeing of the peoples of the Pacific;

• Recognises the complex security

challenges faced by our region, framed by the expanded concept

• f security – human,

environment and resource, transnational and cyber;

• Recognises the need for

strengthening respective national security approaches as the basis for regional security;

• It is a call to action for stronger,

more cohesive regional security cooperation and coordination.

Regional legal frameworks / model provisions to give effect to Forum priorities

• Model Provisions on

Counter Terrorism

• Model Provisions on

Targeted Financial Sanctions

Ms Nola Faasau, Legal Drafting Officer, nolaf@forumsec.org PIFS website: www.forumsec.org