Kamalesh Sharma

The summit’s chief guest, the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Thailand, H.E. General Tanasak Patimapragorn, is arriving in Suva tonight and will join the UN Special Envoy on Climate Change and former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson along with other heads of state, governments and special envoys from across the globe.

PIDF Interim Secretary General Amena Yauvoli, says currently the foundation members of the summit is seventeen and the Ministry has received eleven confirmed countries attending.

This will be the Secretary-General’s first visit to Tuvalu. With this visit, he would have had full formal visits to all Commonwealth member states during his tenure as Secretary-General.

This trip is an opportunity to brief leaders from the region on preparations for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which takes place in Malta from 27 to 29 November, and receive their advice.