Fiji and Samoa are family because we know and share each other's challenges and struggles.
This has been highlighted by the Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama while opening the Samoan High Commission in Clarke Street, Suva.
He says at a time when the Pacific region is posed to a contest of competing interests, the bond of Pacific nations has never mattered more.
Bainimarama says climate action, ocean preservation and nutrition security are the causes we choose because it is obvious they will determine our destiny.
The Prime Minister further says a more connected Pacific is a more secure Pacific and as a major producer of food and manufactured goods, Fiji is ready to play a much larger role to support regional nutrition security, shipping trade and human capital.
Samoan Prime Minister, Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa says the decision to join the majority of the Pacific community to set up office in Fiji is a testament of their support for regional unity and cohesion and to be part of the collective dialogues for a deepened regionalism.
She has also endorsed the finalisation of a development cooperation memorandum of understanding between Fiji and Samoa and says the opportunity to develop and enhance cooperation cannot be missed.
Mataʻafa adds good relations will allow them to pursue many win-win opportunities together and should there be issues, they will handle them in the same constructive spirit and the Pacific way.
