Pacific Islands Forum definition

Pacific Islands Forum means the Pacific Islands Forum, as referred to in the Agreement Establishing the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat; 1 For the purposes of this Agreement, for the Cook Islands, nationality means a person belonging to the part of the Polynesian race indigenous to the Cook Islands and includes any person descended from a Cook Islander as recognised by Cook Islands law, or a permanent resident of the Cook Islands pursuant to Cook Islands law; and for Niue, a natural person is a Niuean national or permanent resident as recognised by Niuean law. Party means any State, separate customs territory or self-governing entity for which this Agreement is in force; printed advertising materials means those goods classified in Chapter 49 of the Harmonized System, including brochures, pamphlets, leaflets, trade catalogues, yearbooks published by trade associations, tourist promotional materials and posters, that are used to promote, publicise, or advertise a good or a service, or are essentially intended to advertise a good or a service, and are supplied free of charge; regional trade agreement means an agreement for closer integration between the economies of the constituent parties composed alternatively or jointly of:

Pacific Islands Forum means the Pacific Islands Forum, as referred to in the Agreement Establishing the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat; Party means any State, separate customs territory or self-governing entity for which this Agreement is in force; Printed advertising materials means those goods classified in Chapter 49 of the Harmonized System, including brochures, pamphlets, leaflets, trade catalogues, yearbooks published by trade associations, tourist promotional materials and posters, that are used to promote, publicise, or advertise a good or a service, or are essentially intended to advertise a good or a service, and are supplied free of charge; Regional trade agreement means an agreement for closer integration between the economies of the constituent parties composed alternatively or jointly of: A customs union or free-trade area or agreement for the formation of such a union or area consistent with Article XXIV of GATT 1994, the Understanding on the Interpretation of Article XXIV of GATT 1994 and, in the case of a customs union or free-trade area or agreement for the formation of such a union or area exclusively involving developing countries, the GATT Decision on Differential and More Favourable Treatment, Reciprocity and Xxxxxx Participation of Developing Countries (Decision of 28 November 1979, L/4903); An economic integration agreement liberalising trade in services consistent with Article V of GATS; SPS Agreement means the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, in Annex 1A to the WTO Agreement; TBT Agreement means the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, in Annex 1A of the WTO Agreement; WTO means the World Trade Organization; WTO Agreement means the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, done on 15 April 1994; and WTO Member means a state, separate customs territory or self-governing entity that is Party to the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, done at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994.

Pacific Islands Forum is more inclusive of the Forum's Oceania-spanning membership of both north and south Pacific island countries, including Australia. It is an observer at the United Nations. Statistics/ Facts : Creation : 1971 Rename : 1999 as Pacific Islands Forum Population (2016) : 40 million Density : 4/km²

Examples of Pacific Islands Forum in a sentence

• On this basis, in early 2012 a number of PICs, as well as the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), began discussions with the World Bank about the possibility of a coordinated regional project to provide International Development Association (IDA) financing as well as technical assistance to support continued sustainable development of the marine fisheries.

• Please consider whether this initiative requires the attention and consideration of the Leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum in order to be implemented and outline why this is the case.

• Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and Jane Kelsey, April 2004, p.

• Commitment No 1That free and fair parliamentary elections take place within 24 months from 1 March 2007, subject to the findings of an assessment to be carried out by the independent auditors appointed by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat.

• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Transnational Organised Crime in the Pacific: Threat Assessment, UNODC Research, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, 2016.

• Egypt was aware of the need to exert greater efforts to reduce industrial and urban pollution by means of the NAPs. Egypt considered that it was vital to give MAP an impetus, and therefore supported the proposal to call on foreign ministries to be an entry point to the Convention, as had already been applied in several Contracting Parties, without interfering in the affairs of environmental bodies.

• Commitment No 1 That free and fair parliamentary elections take place within 24 months from 1 March 2007, subject to the findings of an assessment to be carried out by the independent auditors appointed by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat.

• The information offered in this package is for information only and does not form part of the employment contract.The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) traces its origins to the South Pacific Forum meeting in Port Moresby in 1977 which adopted a Declaration on the Law of the Sea and the establishment of a regional fisheries agency and outlined its functions.

• Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency, Honiara, Solomon Islands.

• The Pacific Islands Forum Geneva Office (PIF Geneva) comprises two sections: Trade Negotiations and Aid-for-Trade (AfT).