A special session of the Assembly of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) was held in Kingston, Jamaica today, to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the International Seabed Authority. Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller of Jamaica opened the special session and paid tribute to the founders of the Authority and the far-sighted diplomats who created the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

The Republic of Poland and the Republic of Fiji formalised diplomatic relations at a ceremony at the Permanent Mission of Poland to the United Nations in New York on 11July, 2014. The Permanent Representative of Poland to the United Nations, AmbassadorRyszardSarkowiczand his Fiji counterpart, Ambassador Peter Thomson, signed a joint communiqué establishing diplomatic relations between the two States.

At the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development in New York today, Fiji’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Peter Thomson, delivered Fiji’s statement on the theme of charting the way towards an ambitious Post-2015 Development Agenda.