{"id":46273,"date":"2022-07-11T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/11\/pacific-islands-forum-pif-jacinda-ardern-total-membership-critical-kiribati-exit-withdraws"},"modified":"2022-07-11T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T05:15:00","slug":"pacific-islands-forum-ardern-says-total-membership-critical-as-pif-shaken-by-kiribatis-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46273","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Islands Forum: Ardern says total membership \u2018critical\u2019 as PIF shaken by Kiribati\u2019s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand prime minister says leaders had been trying to persuade Kiribati not to withdraw from the forum<\/p>\n<p>Jacinda Ardern says total membership is \u201ccritical\u201d for the Pacific Islands Forum in the wake of the shock departure of Kiribati on the eve of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Days after she called for regional cooperation in the face of China\u2019s rise, the prime minister, who is travelling to the forum on Monday, said the meeting \u201ccomes at a critical time for the Pacific, with the region facing climate, environmental, governance, and human development challenges, as well as sharpening geostrategic competition\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/11\/pacific-islands-forum-pif-jacinda-ardern-total-membership-critical-kiribati-exit-withdraws\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand prime minister says leaders had been trying to persuade Kiribati not to withdraw from the forumJacinda Ardern says total membership is \u201ccritical\u201d for the Pacific Islands Forum in the wake of the shock departure of Kiribati on the eve of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,268,56,874,581],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46273","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46274,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46273\/revisions\/46274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}