Pacific Regionalism: Past, Present and Future
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25 February 2011
PIF 40th
Anniversary Leaders' Lecture Series, Port
Vila
MEDIA ADVISORY
Friday, 25
February 2011
Pacific Islands Forum 40th
Anniversary Leaders’ Lecture Series
with a focus on the
Pacific Plan
LECTURE 1:
“Pacific
Regionalism: Past, Present and Future”
Port Vila,
Vanuatu, Thursday 3rd March 2010
The Prime
Minister of the Vanuatu Government and current Chair of the
Pacific Islands Forum, Honourable Sato Kilman, in
collaboration with the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat,
will be hosting the inaugural lecture of the “Pacific
Islands Forum 40th Anniversary Leaders’ Lecture Series,
with a focus on the Pacific Plan”.
You are invited to
send a reporter and cameraperson/photographer to this
event.
The milestone occasion is scheduled for Thursday
3rd March, 2011 at the University of the South Pacific
Emalus Campus Conference Centre, Port Vila, Vanuatu, from
4.30pm (Vanuatu time).
The event will also mark the launch of the Pacific Islands Forum 40th Anniversary (1971-2011), logo and website, and will be the first of a series of public lectures to be held across the region.
The theme of
the lecture will be “Pacific Regionalism: Past,
Present and Future” with the Honourable Prime
Minister and Forum Chair giving the keynote address. Four
distinguished panelists will also provide commentary on the
speech followed by an open discussion and views from the
audience.
The event will be held in the margins of the
High Level Conference on Climate Change being held in Port
Vila from 3-4th March 2011.
The University of the South Pacific will be broadcasting the lecture to its campuses across the region. Media representatives are invited to attend these live broadcasts at the following campuses:
• USP Alafua Campus, Apia, Samoa -
7.30pm March 2nd in Samoa (GMT - 10hrs)
• USP
Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji - 6.30pm March 3rd in Fiji
(GMT + 13 hrs)
• USP Labasa Campus, Fiji -
6.30pm March 3rd in Fiji (GMT + 13 hrs) Contact:
Dr.Samuela Bogitini bogitini_s@usp.ac.fj
• USP Cook
Islands Campus - 7.30pm March 2nd in the Cook Islands
(GMT - 10hrs)
• USP Marshall Islands Campus
- 5.30pm March 3rd in RMI (GMT + 12
hrs)
• USP Lautoka Campus, Fiji - 6.30pm
March 3rd in Fiji (GMT + 13 hrs)
• USP Kiribati
Campus - 5.30pm March 3rd in Tarawa, Kiribati (GMT +
12 hrs)
• USP Solomon Islands Campus -
4.30pm March 3rd in Solomon Is (GMT
+11hrs)
• USP Nauru Campus - 5.30pm March
3 in Nauru (GMT + 12 hrs)
• USP Niue Campus
- 6.30pm March 2nd in Niue (GMT -11
hrs)
• USP Tuvalu Campus - 5.30pm March
3rd in Tuvalu (GMT + 12 hrs)
• USP Tonga Campus
- 6.30pm March 3rd in Tonga (GMT +13
hrs)
• USP Tokelau Campus - 7.30pm March
2nd in Tokalau (GMT - 10hrs
)
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