8/8 “What Pacific countries want is economic development and particularly employment in their country,” said Cleo Paskal,〜 “They don’t want to have to go to Australia to pick fruit. They want to grow their own fruit and export it to Australia.””
He also mused about Solomon Islands setting up its own armed forces,saying its police force was far too small to deal with a rapidly growing population. But that would be a significant departure for Solomon Islands,which has long been troubled by domestic turmoil but does not maintain a standing arm
7/13 “But Mahuta was having none of the ambassador's attempts to paint Nato involvement in this region as forming some kind of bloc targeted at China.”
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