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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Melinia Nawadra [mailto:Melinian@forumsec.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 9 April 2020 11:07 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Michiyo Yamada <michiyo.yamada@unwomen.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Alexandra Robinson <arobinson@unfpa.org>; Kuiniselani Toelupe Tago - Elisara <Kuiniselanit@spc.int>; Miles Young <Milesy@spc.int>; Sandra Bernklau <sandra.bernklau@unwomen.org>; Petra Letter <htperu@pacificdisability.org>; Setareki Macanawai <CEO@pacificdisability.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> FW: [PRESS RELEASE] Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers Agree to Establish a Pacific Humanitarian Pathway on COVID -19<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Latest Press Release from the Pacific Islands Forum for your information please.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers Agree to Establish a Pacific Humanitarian Pathway on COVID -19,
</span><span lang="en-FJ"><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.forumsec.org%2fpacific-islands-forum-foreign-ministers-agree-to-establish-a-pacific-humanitarian-pathway-on-covid-19%2f&c=E,1,o3yZvpFE1IFve5OEN4vwzBUv_9VAUtzjIfKs3iWxNAelTxN7ZvsysFI74LtXWyYxUb3pr2Zm6l0wHB1f6XcinFMxlevYm8J8tTeTen9A3OfF9RYkT2X0MCU3&typo=1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.forumsec.org/pacific-islands-forum-foreign-ministers-agree-to-establish-a-pacific-humanitarian-pathway-on-covid-19/</span></a></span><span lang="en-FJ" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">10am (Fiji Standard Time), Wednesday</span></em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">08 April 2020</span></em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">SUVA, Fiji</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">: Pacific Islands Forum Leaders have invoked the Biketawa Declaration,
to collectively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic as a major crisis to <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">The Blue Pacific</span></em> – its peoples, wellbeing and economies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">As an immediate priority, Forum Foreign Ministers met virtually yesterday to establish a Pacific Humanitarian Pathway on COVID-19, following two weeks of consultation with senior officials, regional
agencies and development agencies through the Forum.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The Pacific Humanitarian Pathway on COVID-19 (PHP-C), under the Biketawa Declaration is the Region’s mechanism that will provide the enabling political environment and commitment to expedite assistance
and cooperation between member countries in preparing for and responding to COVID-19, by enabling the provision of medical and humanitarian assistance from regional, international and development partners in a timely, safe, effective and equitable manner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">“The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health emergency of unprecedented scale. It poses a real and extreme danger to the health and security of the Pacific peoples. Never before has the full Forum Membership
simultaneously been in crisis,” said the Honourable Kausea Natano, Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum and Prime Minister of Tuvalu.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The Chair of the Special Foreign Ministers Meeting, the Honourable Simon Kofe of Tuvalu, said that responding to COVID-19 as a region reflected the Tuvaluan concept of <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">te
fale-pili</span></em>, which literally means houses in close proximity to one another and which implies a moral responsibility to protect neighbors. It also went to the very essence of <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">The
Blue Pacific Way</span></em>, where, in times of hardship, we help each other and ourselves to get through times of distress—together.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">“The Biketawa Declaration recognises that in time of crises, all actions must be taken on the basis that all members of the Forum are part of the Pacific Islands extended family. This, I believe is
the Pacific way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;background:#FCFCFC;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">It is with this agreement by our Leaders to invoke the Biketawa Declaration that we gather, albeit virtually, to consider the proposal for a Pacific Humanitarian Pathway for COVID-19.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">This could include expediting medical assistance, expediting customs clearance of medical supplies, and facilitating diplomatic clearances for chartered flights and commercial shipping.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The PHP-C will be overseen by Forum Foreign Ministers, supported by a Regional Taskforce of Forum Members, the Pacific Community (SPC), the Forum Secretariat and relevant CROP agencies, the World Health
Organisation and other relevant UN agencies, and regional law enforcement and legal agencies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Background: The Biketawa Declaration can be found </span><span lang="en-FJ" style="color:black"><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.forumsec.org%2fbiketawa-declaration%2f&c=E,1,41LvotZKJbRCcG7VbpYekTwpcRkhYeGRmyCMtBww21kFckIsUra16wwlwg1ISjGxZIZVbQeqbeZtL-oE1L-glAq2EwM5E6DeirFb6e_X48ljEzqU_DE8vQ,,&typo=1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#353A98;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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