- Washington should accept Pacific island priorities for the region, making climate change – not superpower competition – the most urgent security task, the region’s leaders said in Hawaii, ahead of a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden this month.
- Leaders and officials from 16 Pacific island nations and territories were present at the meeting in Honolulu.
- Biden will host the first meeting of Pacific island leaders at the White House on Sept 28-29.
U.S. should focus on climate change for Pacific islands: leaders
