{"id":27867,"date":"2021-02-05T09:45:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T00:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/05\/future-of-pacific-islands-forum-in-doubt-as-north-south-rift-emerges"},"modified":"2021-02-05T09:45:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T00:45:50","slug":"future-of-pacific-islands-forum-in-doubt-as-north-south-rift-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27867","title":{"rendered":"Future of Pacific Islands Forum in doubt as north-south rift emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive<\/strong>: Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and Nauru question whether to remain members amid bullying claims<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of Micronesian countries are contemplating abandoning the Pacific Islands Forum altogether, after a fractious vote for a new secretary general sidelined the north Pacific countries, who say they are bullied by larger nations, and left with \u201ccrumbs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) is the Pacific region\u2019s most important political body and a powerful voice for the Pacific on the global stage, but the election of former Cook Islands prime minister Henry Puna as secretary general has exposed a deep fracture between north and south Pacific nations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/05\/future-of-pacific-islands-forum-in-doubt-as-north-south-rift-emerges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and Nauru question whether to remain members amid bullying claimsLeaders of Micronesian countries are contemplating abandoning the Pacific Islands Forum altogether, after a fractious vote for a new s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,855,874,581,1439,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cook-islands","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-palau","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27870,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27867\/revisions\/27870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}