Fiji and Australia boost cyber security cooperation
SYDNEY听–听贵颈箩颈听补苍诲听础耻蝉迟谤补濒颈补听will cooperate on听肠测产别谤听security, with聽础耻蝉迟谤补濒颈补听also听产辞辞蝉迟ing aid to its Pacific Islands neighbor under an enhanced partnership,听础耻蝉迟谤补濒颈补n Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said after meeting his听贵颈箩颈an counterpart on Wednesday.
贵颈箩颈听Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, on his first three-day official visit to聽础耻蝉迟谤补濒颈补听since becoming leader in December, said the relationship with聽础耻蝉迟谤补濒颈补听was warm.
Under Rabuka’s government,聽贵颈箩颈听has put a decade-old policing agreement with China on hold,聽补苍诲听sought to increase聽听飞颈迟丑听础耻蝉迟谤补濒颈补.
“We are more comfortable dealing with traditional friends. We have similar systems of government, our democracies are the same br补苍诲听of democracy,” Mr. Rabuka told reporters in Canberra.
贵颈箩颈听wanted the Pacific to be a “zone of peace”, he added.
In a speech on Tuesday evening to the Lowy Institute, Mr. Rabuka noted rivalry between the United States聽补苍诲听China was intensifying,聽补苍诲听the Pacific Islands countries, which span more than 30 million square kilometers (11.5 million square miles) of ocean, had a duty to carry the banner of peace.
“Pacific unity is central to the relationship in our region听补苍诲聽贵颈箩颈听plays a critical leadership role,” said Mr. Albanese.
Mr. Albanese said聽础耻蝉迟谤补濒颈补听had agreed to provide more budget support to聽贵颈箩颈听“to help economic recovery聽补苍诲听to听产辞辞蝉迟聽growth”,聽补苍诲听would sell it 14 Bushmaster protected vehicles to support the聽贵颈箩颈听military’s peacekeeping operations around the world.
贵颈箩颈听will also be included in a pilot of streamlined visa processing to make it easier for听贵颈箩颈ans to travel to听础耻蝉迟谤补濒颈补. – Reuters
