He said he intends to make the APEC Summit lean towards the Pacific way, as it is an enormous trade and investment area – and needs to make much better linkages between APEC and Pacific Island nations.
O’Neill, when addressing the Fiji Parliament on Monday, stressed that it is very important for Pacific island nations to embrace each other in such big events as APEC.
He said APEC will be more relaxed than in previous years, and have an agenda of real relevance to developing economies.
