<div dir="ltr"><div>Bula Sainimili,</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for the announcement of the 8th Disability Regional Dialogue.</div><div><br></div><div>Your introductory paragraph together with your final paragraph of your email somehow, seemed contradictory. In the first para the Dialogue is confirmed for October 2025, while your final paragraph confirms the rescheduling of the Dialogue.</div><div><br></div><div>I take it that the Dialogue is now rescheduled for 2026. Please confirm.</div><div><br></div><div>Vinaka</div><div><br></div><div>Casper </div><div><br></div><div>The first paragraph seemed to confirmed</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Chief Executive Officer<div>Disabled People's Association of Solomon </div><div>DSE Building, New Chinatown,</div><div>Cresent Street, Honiara</div><div>SOLOMON ISLANDS</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:ceo.dpasi@gmail.com" target="_blank">ceo.dpasi@gmail.com</a></div><div>Office Phone: (677)25608: WhatsApp (677)7953793</div><div><i><font color="#00ff00"><b style="background-color:rgb(7,55,99)">"EMPOWERING DISABILITY WITH RESPECT AND DIGNITY"</b></font></i></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM Shweta Vandana <<a href="mailto:shweta.vandana@pacificdisability.org">shweta.vandana@pacificdisability.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-size:14pt">I hope this email finds you all in good health</span><span style="font-size:12pt">.</span></div>
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find attached a letter from our CEO with important information regarding the Pacific Disability Dialogue.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0px 0px 12px"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Light","Aptos Light_MSFontService",Aptos,Aptos_MSFontService,-apple-system,Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Find the same
information also included below in the body of this email.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Century,Century_MSFontService,Aptos,Aptos_MSFontService,-apple-system,Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">Dear colleagues,</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Century,Century_MSFontService,Aptos,Aptos_MSFontService,-apple-system,Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">Re: Subject: Announcement: Pacific Disability Dialogue
– October</span></p>
<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Century,Century_MSFontService,Aptos,Aptos_MSFontService,-apple-system,Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">20–24, 2025.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Century,Century_MSFontService,Aptos,Aptos_MSFontService,-apple-system,Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">Ni sa bula and warm Pacific greetings to you all.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Century,Century_MSFontService,Aptos,Aptos_MSFontService,-apple-system,Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">The Pacific Disability Forum is pleased to announce that
our general forum will take place from October 20–24, 2025, under the Tittle: Pacific Disability Dialogue.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Century,Century_MSFontService,Aptos,Aptos_MSFontService,-apple-system,Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">This important regional gathering aims to bring together
representatives from approximately 50 Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) across the Pacific to Nadi, Fiji. The Dialogue will focus on:</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Century,Century_MSFontService,Aptos,Aptos_MSFontService,-apple-system,Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">Shaping the PDF Strategy 2026–2030 and Providing input
to the Pacific Regional Framework on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, currently under review by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Century,Century_MSFontService,Aptos,Aptos_MSFontService,-apple-system,Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">The program will also include a two-day Partner and Donor
Dialogue, fostering shared understanding and alignment among OPDs, development partners, and donors. In addition, one day during the week will be dedicated to internal PDF affairs, which will serve as the general forum itself.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Century,Century_MSFontService,Aptos,Aptos_MSFontService,-apple-system,Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">matters, updates, and strategic discussions specific to
PDF.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Century,Century_MSFontService,Aptos,Aptos_MSFontService,-apple-system,Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">Please also be informed that the 8th Pacific Regional Conference
on Disability (PRCD) has been rescheduled to 2026. Confirmed</span></p>
<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Century,Century_MSFontService,Aptos,Aptos_MSFontService,-apple-system,Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">dates will be announced in due course.</span></p>
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and strategic dialogue for advancing the rights and priorities of persons with</span></p>
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