Pacific Community

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Pacific Community
SPC

Flag of the Pacific Community
 
English name Pacific Community
Organization type regional economic cooperation
Seat of the organs * Nouméa , New Caledonia (headquarters)
  • Suva , Fiji (education center, agriculture and forestry program)
Secretary General Jimmie Rogers
Member States 26th
founding

February 6, 1947 (Canberra Agreement)

http://www.spc.int/

The Pacific Community (Engl. Pacific Community ; double. Communauté du Pacifique ) is an international organization with the objective of social and economic development of its Member States through expert and advisory activities.

history

It was founded on February 6, 1947 as the South Pacific Commission by Australia , France , the Netherlands , New Zealand , the United Kingdom and the United States , making it one of the oldest regional organizations in the world. The founding agreement is known as the Canberra Agreement .

The organization was given its current name in 1997. In its appearance, it mostly uses the term Secretariat of the Pacific Community in order to maintain continuity in the use of the abbreviation SPC , which originally stood for South Pacific Commission ; however, the secretariat is only part of the organization.

The headquarters of the Pacific Community are in Nouméa , New Caledonia ; the education center and agriculture and forestry program are based in Suva , Fiji . The current General Manager is Jimmie Rogers of the Solomon Islands .

Members

The Pacific Community currently has 26 members. These are the 22 Pacific island states and territories as well as the four founding states Australia , France , New Zealand and the United States . The United Kingdom was a brief interruption (1996 to 1998) Member until 2005. In November, the accession of East Timor planned.

Founding States
AustraliaAustralia Australia FranceFrance France New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand United StatesUnited States United States
Pacific island states and territories
Samoa AmericanAmerican Samoa American Samoa Marshall IslandsMarshall Islands Marshall Islands PalauPalau Palau TokelauTokelau Tokelau
Cook IslandsCook Islands Cook Islands Micronesia, Federated StatesMicronesia Micronesia Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea Papua New Guinea TuvaluTuvalu Tuvalu
FijiFiji Fiji NauruNauru Nauru Pitcairn IslandsPitcairn Islands Pitcairn Islands VanuatuVanuatu Vanuatu
French PolynesiaFrench Polynesia French Polynesia New CaledoniaNew Caledonia New Caledonia Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands Solomon Islands Wallis FutunaWallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna
GuamGuam Guam NiueNiue Niue SamoaSamoa Samoa
KiribatiKiribati Kiribati Mariana Islands NorthernNorthern Mariana Islands Northern Mariana Islands TongaTonga Tonga

See also

literature

  • Henning Blatt: Pacific Community . In: Wolfrum, Rüdiger (Ed.): Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law . 2013.
  • Thomas Richard Smith: South Pacific Commission: An analysis after twenty-five years . Price Milburn, Wellington 1972.
  • Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Ed.): Meeting house of the Pacific: the story of SPC 1947-2007 . Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Nouméa 2007. ISBN 978-982-00-0221-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Radio Australia: Timor Leste on the brink of becoming Pacific Community's 27th member , accessed June 30, 2015.