MSG Financial Issues To Be Resolved

NEWS

MSG Financial Issues To Be Resolved

The financial issues that had plagued the Melanesian Spearhead Group will be resolved, says George Milner Tozaka. The MSG Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting, chairman said the appointment of Fiji’s Ambassador

by charles chamber, suva

17 Jun 2016 10:34

From left: Indonesia’s deputy foreign secretary for Asia Pacific and Africa Affairs Dr Desra Percaya, FLNKS Foreign Minister Caroline Macharo-Reiguer, MSG Chairman and Solomon Islands Foreign Minister George Milner Tozaka, newly endorsed director-general of MSG Ambassador Amena Yauvoli, Fiji’s Foreign Affairs Minister Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, Papua New Guinea High Commissioner to Fiji Lucy Bogari and Rex Rumakiek, an observer from the United Liberation Movement for West Papua. Photo: Charles Chambers

More on NEWS

The financial issues that had plagued the Melanesian Spearhead Group will be resolved, says George Milner Tozaka.

The MSG Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting, chairman said the appointment of Fiji’s Ambassador for Climate Change and Oceans Amena Yauvoli as director-general would help alleviate the problem.

“The MSG Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting is happy to say that with the appointment of Mr Yauvoli, we have agreed to take the issue head-on.

“In everything there is a solution,” Mr Tozaka said.

Former director-general of the MSG Secretariat Peter Forau tendered his resignation two years before his term ended.

He was elected into that position in 2011 but resigned citing lackm of financial commitment from MSG member countries.

Mr Forau had said financial support for the MSG Secretariat was becoming a major issue for the MSG.

Mr Tozaka said the financial issue would be resolved.