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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, There are now more than 1,300 people housed in the Australian-run detention centres for asylum seekers on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea and in Nauru.
2. New Zealand this week announced it would further ease sanctions on Fiji and offered more assistance for elections.
3. Australia's new Government says it will cut the promised growth in foreign aid, prompting fears Pacific countries will suffer.
4. A former Papua New Guinea betel nut vendor says the chewing and selling of the nut is likely to go on as usual despite a proposal to ban it from Port Moresby's streets and public places from October [2013].
5. Last week amid great fanfare the leaders of the Pacific made their Majuro Declaration on climate change.
6. Papua New Guinea have finished atop the medal table at the Pacific Mini Games in Wallis and Futuna.