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A weekly wrap-up of news, issues and current affairs from the Pacific. The programme is broadcast nationwide every Saturday evening on Radio New Zealand National and is produced by the newsroom of Radio New Zealand International. The following rundown is supplied from the broadcaster’s news system:
1. Fourteen Pacific leaders on Thursday agreed in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Island, to demonstrate climate leadership through action that contributes to an urgent reduction in greenhouse gas pollution.
2. The new Fiji constitution, drawn up by the Bainimarama government after it threw out a draft by its own constitution commission, is now in force.
3. Aid spending has boomed in the Pacific over the past decade but almost all the island nations remain unlikely to graduate from being recipient countries.
4. There are mounting calls in Solomon Islands for the government to better protect and support indigenous business people.
5. The Cook Islands has welcomed changes to the superannuation portability for New Zealanders retiring to the realm countries.
6. Fiji's Trades Union Congress says permanent secretaries of government departments and the heads of the military, prisons and police have been given pay increases of up to 192 percent.
7. The president of Makatu'unga He 'Ofa in Wellington wants to see Tongan language incorporated into the New Zealand school curriculum.
8. Papua New Guinea is leading the way after the first few days of competition at the Pacific Mini Games in Wallis and Futuna.