Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Pacific Islands Forum members will continue to work closely together to safely support the vital Pacific humanitarian pathway on COVID-19, which is ensuring the movement of essential supplies and personnel and will then enable people to move safely as economic recovery grows. It's tourists, it's more Pacific workers, it's students, it's family members. It's essential for our shared economic recovery.

We're working in a partnership with our Pacific friends to support continued operation of the aviation sector in the vast, blue Pacific continent. It's an essential underpinning for economic recovery and to support safe travel. Importantly, I'm pleased to inform the Senate that leaders also endorsed Australia's proposal for a formal annual meeting of Pacific women leaders as part of the PIF program, adding to meetings of foreign ministers, trade ministers, economic ministers and so on. It's added to the formal forum meeting agenda. It will drive even stronger political focus on gender equality— (Time expired)