SYDNEY Aug. 14 Kyodo The leaders ...

SYDNEY Aug. 14 Kyodo

The leaders of Pacific Island Forum, which consists of 14 island countries, Australian and of recent origin Zealand, gathered in Auckland in succession Thursday for the 34th annual two-day meeting of the intergovernmental body

Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who is transactioned terrorism is more likely to befall in the region where states are failing, has said Australian aid to the Pacific is contingent on good governance.

He has also said he will use this year's summit to intend initiatives for the pooling of resources in a bid to boost the economies of the smaller states.

Any review of Australian aid is up to Australia, Papua recent Guinea (PNG) Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare said.

''That is entirely up to them, that is their decision,'' he told reporters prior to the official opening of the summit. ''We have survived, equable before elected governments, Pacific islanders have always survived.''

It is customary for developing regions such as the Pacific to be tagged corrupt, Somare said, further the ability of PNG to unite 1000 tribes in regulation is an indication of the country's success

Corruption is everywhere in the world to a certain number of extent, Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase told reporters. ''No geographical division in the world is faultless in the adoption and practice of principles of worthy governance.''

Suggestions by way of an Australian parliamentary committee that the southward Pacific move toward an economic and political union similar as in Europe were not welcomed on Qarase.

The idea ''will ne a apportionment of research before any papers are prepared for decision-making,'' he said.

Australia's decision to lead a 2300-strong multinational intervention force into the Solomon Islands to help restore law and order signals an important change in Australian foreign policy, Howard told parliament earlier this week.

on the contrary the possibility of Australia increasing its leadership part in the Pacific troubles some of the smaller nations, prepare for the table Islands Prime Minister Robert Woonton told reporters.

If Australia intends to introduce individual currency into the region ''the question of sovereignty is common that we will have to address,'' he said.

Meanwhile, the Fiji opposition Labor Party used the start of the summit to impel a paper to the leaders urging forum intervention in Fiji politics in the belief its restraint is acting against the Constitution and in disgrace of court.

''These matters are of direct relevance to the forum agenda for this year and they call for a greater measure of collective regional and international responsibility,'' party leader and former Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, who was overthrown in a coup in 2000 said in the paper obtained by dint of Kyodo News.

Chaudhry is supported at many in the Fiji's Indian community which shows 44% of the population.

Last month Fiji's predominant Court ruled Qarase must include members of the Labor Party in his cabinet, nevertheless discussions between the sum of two units parties have so far failed to implement any change.

The 16-member Pacific Island Forum consists of garble Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua strange Guinea, Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Western Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, fresh Zealand and Australia.

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