On August 21, 2015 India will host the heads of 14 island
nations at the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC), in
what is seen as a first step towards greater engagement with the region,
which is important from an economic and geostrategic standpoint
The
upcoming summit in Jaipur is expected to pave the way for agreements in
agriculture, food processing, fisheries, solar energy, e-networks for
coordination in telemedicine and tele-education, space cooperation and
climate change, all of which were mentioned as areas of potential
cooperation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Fiji in
Nov 2014
The 14 Pacific Island countries are
- Cook Islands
- Kingdom of Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Republic of Nauru
- Republic of Kiribati
- Vanuatu
- Solomon Islands
- Samoa
- Niue
- Republic of Palau
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Republic of Marshall Islands
- Fiji and
- Papua New Guinea.
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