What is Distinctive about Vanuatu’s Foreign Policy?
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2024-09-02
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Firth, Stewart
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Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University
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Vanuatu has just produced its first ever Foreign Policy Paper, entitled National Foreign Policy: A Foreign Policy for Vanuatu and its People (Republic of Vanuatu 2024), which gives expression to longstanding principles of the way Vanuatu engages with the world. Among these are support for nonalignment, UN peacekeeping, denuclearisation and decolonisation as well as a commitment to the region’s 2018 Boe Declaration and 2022 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent. Above all, Vanuatu has sought to avoid being a mere satrapy of more powerful states such as Australia.
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Vanuatu, Foreign Policy
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Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University
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Department of Pacific Affairs In Brief series
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