Manoa Kamikamica is Acting PM

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Cooperatives, SMEs and Communications, Manoa Kamikamica is the Acting Prime Minister as Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka is on a state visit to Kiribati.

Rabuka returns to the country tomorrow. Rabuka as the Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum is visiting Kiribati to re-engage with the island nation after it’s withdrawal from the forum last year.

The state visit comes at the request of the Government of Fiji and is part of the newly elected coalition government’s official engagements overseas.

Rabuka is expected to meet Kiribati’s President, Taneti Maamau for bilateral discussions.

Kiribati had said the forum has not adequately addressed the concerns of Micronesian countries who threatened to leave the Pacific Islands Forum in 2021.

All eyes will now be on Rabuka’s visit on whether he can get Kiribati back into the forum.