Members

The Charter [PDF 55KB] sets out founding member countries and observer members of PILON.

Member countries of PILON are Australia, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

Regional organisations were granted official observer membership at the 26th PILON meeting in the Cook Islands in December 2007. These are:

• the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
• the Secretariat of the Pacific Community
• the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
• the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency
• the International Committee of the Red Cross
• the Pacific Legal Information Institute
• the University of the South Pacific
• the Commonwealth Secretariat, and
• the Pacific International Maritime Law Association.

Guidelines for observer status and participation were endorsed at the recent PILON meeting under PILON’s Rules of Procedure [PDF 52KB].