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11:02 pm GMT+12, 18/07/2019, Fiji “To increase and develop the relationship between the European Union and the countries and Territories of the Pacific. We have a lot of common challenges and climate change is certainly number one of these challenges, but development is also a very serious as and challenge in the region. I think…
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