She has given credit to the General Secretary of the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat and Papua New Guinean Meg Taylor for the different approach she has taken in the secretariat.
She says in the past there has always been long lists of priority issues set out by government officials for leaders to deliberate.
Most times leaders did not have the time to be thorough.
For this PIF only five key issues were identified after the secretariat carried out wide consultation on what people thought their leaders should be discussing.
