President Biden hosted the first U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit (PICS) in Washington on September 28-29. The Summit demonstrated the United States’ deep and enduring partnership with Pacific Island countries and the Pacific region and reflected our broadening and deepening cooperation on key issues such as climate crisis, pandemic response, economic recovery, maritime security, environmental protection, and advancing a free and open Indo-Pacific.
View the latest on the Summit Page here.
Recognition of Cook Islands and Niue: The United States will recognize the Cook Islands and Niue as sovereign states, following appropriate consultations.
Resources, Statements, Remarks, and Fact Sheets:
- Biden hosts first Pacific Island country summit
- Declaration on U.S.-Pacific Partnership
- Pacific Partnership Strategy (in full)
- Remarks by President Biden at the U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit
- FACT SHEET: President Biden Unveils First-Ever Pacific Partnership Strategy
- FACT SHEET: Roadmap for a 21st-Century U.S.-Pacific Island Partnership
- United States releases historic Pacific strategy, promising to fight climate change, rebuff China’s ‘coercion’ – The US Ambassador to NZ Tom Udall and international relations expert Robert Patman spoke to AM.
- United States to recognise Cook Islands as a sovereign state
- Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials Previewing the U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit
- USAID Announces Expansion in the Pacific Region And Reaffirms Commitment to bolster Resilience In The Pacific Islands at the 2022 U.S.-pacific Island Country Summit
- U.S. Pacific Island Country Summit roundtable on Climate Action with Special Envoy Kerry
- United States Announces Enhanced Engagement with the Pacific Islands
- MCC’s Solomon Islands Grant a Key Element of the U.S.-Pacific Partnership
- Secretary Antony J. Blinken At the U.S.-Pacific Island Country Leaders Working Lunch On People-Centered Development in the Pacific
- Secretary Antony J. Blinken and President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands David Kabua, President of the Federated States of Micronesia David Panuelo, and President of Palau Surangel Whipps Jr. Before their Meeting
- Joint Statement on Partners in the Blue Pacific Foreign Ministers Meeting
- U.S. Environmental and Conservation Priorities
- Readout of The Partners in the Blue Pacific (PBP) Ministerial
- Announcing the Special Presidential Envoy for Compact Negotiations
- Secretary Antony J. Blinken at the Ministerial Meeting of the Partners in the Blue Pacific
- United States Announces Commitments at Seventh Our Ocean Conference
- United States Congress and the Pacific Island Country Summit
- Fact Sheet: 2022 Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders
- Blinken, partners advance Indo-Pacific cooperation
- U.S. a ‘steadfast partner’ in the Indo-Pacific
- U.S. and Pacific partners aid Tonga after disaster
- The climate crisis threatens these marine creatures [photo gallery]
- Fact Sheet: U.S. Relations with Samoa
