REPRESENTING FIJI'S INTERESTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

The Fiji Mission to the United Nations is foremost tasked with the duty of representing Fiji's interests in the United Nations, comprising the General Assembly (plenary agenda items and General Assembly Committees 1 to 6), Security Council, Economic and Social Council (including it's subsidiary organizations such as UNDP, UNEP, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNESCO, etc), and all its peripheral activities such as in the inter-regional (G77, AOSIS/SIDS), regional (Asia Group) and the sub-regional groupings (PIF).

Fiji's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, H.E. Ambassador Berenado Vunibobo (sitting; right), at the United Nations Division of Ocean Affairs and Law of the Sea, where he submitted Fiji's Continental Shelf Claim, April, 2009, New York.

Consular Activites

Principally, the Mission services Canada and the immediate New York for consular requirements as well as through requests for relevant information relating to tourism, and other policies from the public and private sectors, especially from the business community and schools.

For citizens living in the U.S., the Fiji Embassy in Washington D.C. services all their requests.

The six main functionary committees at the U.N. are:

First Committee : Disarmament and International Security Issues

Second Committee : Economic and Financial Issues

Third Committee : Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Issues

Fourth Committee : Special Political Decolonisation Issues

Fifth Committee : Administrative and Budgetary Issues

Sixth Committee : Legal Issues