The Secretariat of the Pacific Community’s (SPC) Team Leader for ocean management and literacy, Tony Kabasi, has reiterated the call by Pacific Islands Forum Leaders for Pacific countries to complete their outstanding maritime boundaries.
In the Communique of 54th Pacific Islands Forum held in Solomon Islands from 8-12 September 2025, building on the landmark 2021 and 2023 Declarations, Leaders reaffirmed their collective commitment to urgently conclude all outstanding maritime boundaries delimitations and continental shelf submissions. Leaders reaffirmed this decisive action is crucial to securing the full legal certainty and permanence of our maritime zones in perpetuity, in the face of the existential threat posed by climate change-related sea-level rise.
