{"id":243913,"date":"2023-05-24T20:10:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=243913"},"modified":"2023-05-24T20:10:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:40:43","slug":"what-is-the-fipic-summit-that-pm-modi-attended-in-papua-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-the-fipic-summit-that-pm-modi-attended-in-papua-new-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the FIPIC summit that PM Modi attended in Papua New Guinea?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cWhat is the FIPIC summit that PM Modi attended in Papua New Guinea?\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 24th May 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">third India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) Summit was held in Papua New Guinea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is FIPIC?<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_243914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-243914\" style=\"width: 513px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-243914 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/islands-in-the-pacific-ocean.png?resize=513%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Forum for India\u2013Pacific Islands Cooperation\" width=\"513\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/islands-in-the-pacific-ocean.png?w=1005&amp;ssl=1 1005w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/islands-in-the-pacific-ocean.png?resize=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/islands-in-the-pacific-ocean.png?resize=768%2C541&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-243914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forum for India\u2013Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) was launched during the Indian PM\u2019s visit to Fiji in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FIPIC includes 14 island countries \u2013 Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu \u2013 that are located in the Pacific Ocean, to the northeast of Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first FIPIC summit was held in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2014 at Suva, Fiji\u2019s capital city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A major part of India&#8217;s engagement with these countries is through development assistance under South-South Cooperation, mainly in capacity building (training, scholarships, grant-in-aid and loan assistance) and community development projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About India\u2019s Assistance to Pacific Island Countries<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has supported Fiji and Papua New Guinea by providing indelible ink for their general elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An important healthcare initiative, the Jaipur Foot Camp, was organized in Fiji in collaboration with the Fijian Ministry of Health and Medical Services, fully funded by the Indian government.During the camp, approximately 600 Fijians received customized prosthetic limbs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has also extended Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) to Pacific Island Countries (PICs) on several occasions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to bilateral engagements, the establishment of the <\/span><b>India-UN Development Partnership Fund<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2017 has been significant.The fund&#8217;s primary objective is to provide assistance to developing countries, with a specific focus on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and small island developing states, by supporting sustainable development projects that are based on their specific needs and demands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u200b\u200b<\/span><b>What happened at the third FIPIC summit in 2023?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prime Minister announced initiatives such as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Establishment of a super-speciality cardiology hospital in Fiji. The Indian government will bear the full cost of this mega greenfield project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Sea ambulances will be provided to all 14 Pacific island countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The PM also pledged to provide desalination units for the people of every Pacific Island country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cWhat is the FIPIC summit that PM Modi attended in Papua New Guinea?\u201d published in Indian Express on 24th May 2023 What is the News? The third India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) Summit was held in Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 What is FIPIC? The Forum for India\u2013Pacific Islands Cooperation&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-the-fipic-summit-that-pm-modi-attended-in-papua-new-guinea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is the FIPIC summit that PM Modi attended in Papua New Guinea?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,1236,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-243913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-international-organisations","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}