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SOUTH PACIFIC FORUM:
New Zealand, on behalf of the Member
States of the South Pacific Forum who are also Member States of
the UN (Australia, Micronesia, Fiji, Marshall Islands, New
Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu),
introduced two documents: the Communiqu‚ of the South Pacific
Forum (A/48/359) and the Port Vila Declaration on Population and
Sustainable Development (A/C.2/48/3), which form the basis of the
South Pacific position on the ICPD. The Port Vila Declaration
underscores that population issues cannot be separated from the
issue of improving the social, economic, political and legal
status of women. He also affirmed the importance of the
perspective of indigenous peoples.