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Gender-issues, family violence and women in leadership have been key themes at the annual regional leaders meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says climate change and finding regional solutions to shared problems were the focus of the leaders' retreat, the centrepiece of the Pacific Islands Forum.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is speaking from the Pacific Islands Forum as the US pledges an increase in engagement and funding to the region.

The government has announced it will give $12.6 million to the Fiji Gender Action Programme to boost support and services for curbing violence against women.

After announcing $10m of spending from the government's climate aid fund, the PM says making sure the Pacific region is investing in climate resilience is incredibly important.

Concern over increase in violence in Tonga, surplus announced in American Samoa, and action urged over West Papua

The government is putting $10 million of its $1.3 billion climate aid fund towards the Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees and the Global Crop Diversity Trust.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern believes Kiribati's withdrawal from the Pacific Islands Forum does not speak to wider disunity amongst its members.

The highly-anticipated Pacific Islands Forum, meeting face-to-face for the first time since the pandemic began, is already off to a rocky start after Kiribati withdrew.

The 51st Pacific Forum leaders meeting scheduled to start tomorrow has been dealt a major blow after the Kiribati government confirmed it has withdrawn from the forum "with immediate effect."

Power Play: It's the first time in a long time a prime minister has returned from Australia with more than empty platitudes over the treatment of New Zealanders there.

Fiji is set to host the 51st Forum Leaders Meeting scheduled to take place in the capital, Suva, from 11 to 14 July.

Niue Premier Dalton Tagelagi remains in isolation after becoming a close contact of a Covd-19 case who arrived on the first quarantine free flight from New Zealand last week.

Pacific Peoples Minister Aupito William Sio will attend the meeting in Fiji, as Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta recovers from Covid-19.

Analysis - Geoffrey Miller poses the question: Is New Zealand suddenly softening its more pro-Western foreign policy - and its tougher line on China?

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern does not expect a resolution on 501 deportations from her trip to Australia this week, saying it will take time to work through.

Labour shortages, supply chain disruption and climate change are expected to be among the topics of discussion on the Prime Minister's Australian trade mission. Audio

The Prime Minister is returning to Australia for a trade mission to complete the third leg of Aotearoa's reconnection strategy.

Australia should be more engaged in the Pacific, something the previous government failed to do sufficiently, says Australia's Foreign Minister. Audio

Opinion - New Zealand's defence minister, Peeni Henare, has had a very busy first half of the year and his upcoming three-day mission to South Korea is no accident, Geoffrey Miller writes.

Analysis - With China raising the stakes in the Pacific, New Zealand must stump up the funds to assist with the region's infrastructure and development needs, Andrew Gillespie writes.

Analysis - The prime minister meets the US president in the White House and China doesn't get all it wanted from Pacific countries.