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VOA Asia Reports: US Pacific Island Summit Day 1 Wrap (Jessica Stone)
September 29, 2022
Content TypePackage
LanguageEnglish
Transcript/ScriptHello this is Jessica Stone coming to you from the White House where we are wrapping up day one of our coverage of the first U.S. Pacific Island Nation Summit. There have been a lot of meetings and coordinations over commerce business development economic development health care, covid-19 vaccine distribution, and of course the all important issue to many of these nations, which is climate change. They had most of their meetings on Wednesday at the State Department on Thursday They're going to be coming over here to the White House Each leader is going to be meeting with President Joe Biden. It's very important says the White House for this president to have that opportunity to meet and listen to the concerns of Pacific island leaders because. Remember the White House has not had this level of engagement in decades with Pacific Island leaders and this is a part of the world that has become so much more important because of the influence of Beijing. So we will see a family photo on Thursday and we are continuing to await the release of the first U.S. Pacific Island Nations strategy which will be part of the Indo-Pacific framework and into Pacific strategy that the White House has released To get more insight on what steps are ahead for the U.S. to make good on increasing relations with this part of the world.
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NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
NetworkVOA
Embargo DateSeptember 28, 2022 21:18 EDT
Brand / Language ServiceVoice of America - English
