IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi delivers report on Japan's ALPS-treated wastewater plans to the Pacific Islands Forum chair, Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown in Rarotonga. Photo: Supplied/ IAEA
Pacific leaders are still disunited over Japan's release of over one-million-tonnes of treated nuclear wastewater into the Pacific.
That's meant to start this morning.
A Japanese government spokesperson says it is 'not willfully trying to divide the Pacific'.
However, the Pacific Islands Forum Chair says diverging views remain and is set to be a "matter of priority" for discussion at the upcoming forum summit.
RNZ Pacific's Lydia Lewis has the story.