SYDNEY Aug. 13 Kyodo Australia wi...

SYDNEY Aug. 13 Kyodo

Australia will conjure the leaders of 14 Pacific states to join in economic, policing and aviation matters for the sake of regional peace and prosperity at this year's Pacific Island Forum meeting beginning in Auckland onward Thursday.

Leaders of the Pacific island nations will be joined at Australian Prime Minister John Howard and innkeeper New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark for the 34th annual two-day meeting of the intergovernmental body

Howard will use the summit to mean a regional police training corporation be based in Fiji's capital Suva to which Australia will contribute A$15 million (US$9.8 million), he said Wednesday.

''Clearly these small countries don't have the capacity to train their be in possession of police,'' he told Sky News

The prime minister pitiless short of saying the body will produce a regional police force on the other hand added, ''One thing can lead to another.''

Howard said he will also use the leaders' meeting to circulate a discussion paper containing a proposals for pooling of regional resources, in the same state [i]or[/i] condition as setting up a regional airline.

''Poor economies mean many of the smaller nations toil to maintain basic infrastructure and Australia room for expectations that combining economic and labor resources will boost regional economic growth'' he said.

The idea of regional governance may not be welcomed by way of all the Pacific leaders, who could view it as domestic interference, with Papua of the present day Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare telling the modern Zealand Herald on Wednesday he wants more information forward any such proposals.

Australia's decision to intervene in the Solomon Islands after a ask for from its government signals an important change in Australian foreign policy, Howard told parliament this week. ''Direct intervention, equable by a friendly multilateral force, should always be a last resort.''

on the other hand the prime minister denied Wednesday that its of recent origin policy is a form of neo-colonialism. ''He have to deal in reality and not in of advanced age jargon. Neo-colonial is of long date jargon,'' he told Sky News

''People are in an era now where these countries are just going to disappear in chaos and ill-governance if we don't intervene,'' Howard said.

An Australian-led multinational intervention force of 2000 police and multitudes from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua recent Guinea and Tonga arrived in the Solomon Islands last month to restore law and order.

Ethnic violence and lawlessness between the tribe from the islands of Malaita and Guadalcanal has almost ruined the impoverished nation of nearly 500000 across the past five years.

The summit will give leaders the opportunity to review the Biketawa Declaration, signed in Kiribati in 2000 which gave the forum the mandate to intervene in regional crises, forum spokesman Ulafala Aaivao said.

The leaders will also discuss newly come free trade initiatives such as PICTA (the Pacific Island independent Trade Agreement) and PACER (the Pacific Agreement forward Closer Economic Relations), which have reach [i]or[/i] attain any place [i]or[/i] point into effect since last year's summit meeting in Fiji, he told Kyodo News

The meeting will also descry a new forum head exquisiteed to replace outgoing Secretary General Noel Levi from Papua just discovered Guinea who finishes his bourn in January, Aaivao said.

Since the forum was established in 1971 the secretary general has been chosen end discussion and consensus with an unwritten understanding that Pacific island countries hem in the position, he said.

The nearest forum head is likely to be a cause for debate at this year's summit, with Australia putting senior Foreign Affairs Ministry official Greg Urwin up as a candidate.

lately leaders have agreed the secretary general position should be advertised for applications supported through a member country, and do away with the unwritten domination by saying the position is interpret to all forum members, Aaivao said.

Three other candidates will give Urwin, and Howard who will be pushing his candidate, a stream for the money: Nauru Ambassador to the United Nations Vince Claudmar; Samoan Minister of Lands and the Environment Tagaloa Tuala; and former Tonga Prime Minister Langi Kavaliku.

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

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