Stronger 太平洋の in everyone's 利益／興味s: Australia
After months of relentless 外交, Australia believes the 太平洋の will be stronger with a 統一するd 太平洋の Islands 会議.
The return of Kiribati to the 太平洋の Islands 会議 was 調印（する）d on Friday at a special leaders 退却／保養地 in Nadi, Fiji.
While many have 与える／捧げるd to mending 負傷させるs, 特に new Fiji 総理大臣 Sitiveni Rabuka, its ありそうもない any worked harder than Australia 外務大臣 Penny Wong.
The pair looked over at each other and 株d a joke during the 首脳会議's family photo.
上院議員 Wong has made nine visits to the 太平洋の in as many months, coming good on an 選挙 約束 to re-engage in the 地域, taking in 16 太平洋の nations.
On her travels, Australia 誓約（する）d 援助（する）, 調印するd 取引，協定s and argued for 太平洋の まとまり, which supports Australia's 戦略の goal of 避難所ing the 地域 from outsized Chinese 影響（力）.
"A strong and 部隊d 太平洋の Islands 会議 is in all of our 利益／興味s," she said in Nadi.
On her ninth trip this week, Australia 調印するd an MoU with Kiribati that 含むd the 再構築する of a wharf, a patrol boat and policing support.
上院議員 Wong then 長，率いるd to the 退却／保養地 with Mr Maamau, 発表するing $10 million in new 基金ing for Fijian schools 損失d in 最近の サイクロンs.
That was followed by an even bigger 誓約（する） of $620 million to 基金 health-care programs in the 太平洋の and Southeast Asia.
The programs will 基金 children's immunisations, 接近 to maternity care and fighting 病気s such as HIV/エイズ, tuberculosis and malaria.
"We do better in a world where we are more 安全な・保証する, we do better in a 地域 that is more stable and more secur e - and part of that is health," 上院議員 Wong said.
The South Australian ripped through a whirlwind schedule of 二国間の／相互の 会合s on Thursday with leaders from Tuvalu, Samoa and the Cook Islands and さまざまな Fijian 大臣s, before the 退却／保養地 on Friday.
Australia and New Zealand are 始める，決める to 支払う／賃金 more for PIF's 現在進行中の costs に引き続いて the まとまり 協定／条約.
New Zealand 副 総理大臣 Carmel Sepuloni said the pair had "a かかわり合い of upfront 基金ing for the first three years".
に引き続いて that, Ms Sepuloni said a return to a 51-49 基金ing 分裂（する） was likely, with Australia and New Zealand contribuing 51 per cent, and other PIF members 支払う／賃金ing the 残り／休憩（する）.
Under Australia's reoriented 外交政策, with a 激しい 焦点（を合わせる） on solidifying the 太平洋の, the 政府 has decided the cost is 価値（がある） it.
上院議員 Wong told the ABC the Labor 政府, which won office last year an 選挙 where Chinese 約束／交戦 in the 太平洋の was a major 問題／発行する, was more committed to the 地域 than its 前任者.
"We've been out in the 地域. We've engaged more. We've listened more," 上院議員 Wong said on Friday.
"We've 明白に got a much more sensible and ambitious position on 気候, which is the central 問題／発行する, the most important 国家の 安全 and 経済的な 問題／発行する 直面するing 太平洋の Islands.
"We've engaged and it's fantastic to be here."
PENNY WONG'S PACIFIC SPRAWL: 16 COUNTRIES IN NINE MONTHS
May 2022 - Fiji
June 2022 - Samoa and Tonga; then New Zealand and Solomon Islands
July 2022 - Fiji (太平洋の Islands 会議)
August 2022 - Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste
October 2022 - Marshall Islands and Nauru; then Cook Islands, Niue and French Polynesia
December 2022 - Vanuatu, the Federated 明言する／公表するs of Micronesia and Palau
February 2023 - Kiribati, Fiji (太平洋の Islands 会議)
