{"id":70096,"date":"2025-03-13T08:50:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T23:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/13\/new-vanuatu-pm-jotham-napat-revisit-australia-security-agreement"},"modified":"2025-03-13T08:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T23:50:31","slug":"new-vanuatu-pm-says-he-will-revisit-2022-security-agreement-with-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70096","title":{"rendered":"New Vanuatu PM says he will \u2018revisit\u2019 2022 security agreement with Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Jotham Napat said pact must be taken \u2018back to the drawing board\u2019 and should reflect climate change as security issue<\/p>\n<p>Vanuatu\u2019s new prime minister has said his government intends to \u201crevisit\u201d a security agreement with Australia, arguing it does not reflect his country\u2019s priorities including climate change and travel mobility for its citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Jotham Napat, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/16\/vanuatu-election-2025-earthquake-impact-results\">elected<\/a> in February, said the pact with Canberra had to be taken \u201cback to the drawing board\u201d as he sought a \u201cwin-win situation\u201d in a renegotiated deal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/13\/new-vanuatu-pm-jotham-napat-revisit-australia-security-agreement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Jotham Napat said pact must be taken \u2018back to the drawing board\u2019 and should reflect climate change as security issueVanuatu\u2019s new prime minister has said his government intends to \u201crevisit\u201d a security agreement with Australia, arguing it doe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4040,"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":[41,43,50,874,3085,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-leaders-in-their-words","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70096","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\/4040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70097,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70096\/revisions\/70097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}