Japan is going to host the 9th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting, so called PALM, in 2021.

This time, the PALM will be held in Shima city, Mie prefecture.

Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting is a summit-level meeting which has been held every three years since 1997. Leaders openly discuss various issues that Pacific Island Countries(PICs) are facing in order to build close cooperative relationships and forge a bond of friendship between Japan and PICs.

PALM is now constituted by 19 countries and areas including Kiribati, Cook Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Tonga, Nauru, Niue, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia,
New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.

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