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By Lucy Craymer and Kirsty Needham

WELLINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) - Raw Zealand Choice Diplomatic minister Jacinda Ardern aforementioned on Thursday regional computer architecture so much as the Pacific Islands Meeting place was critical in resolving regional problems and topical anesthetic security measure issues should be solved locally.

Leadership of the Pacific Islands Meeting place countries tuck in Fiji adjacent workweek for an annual group meeting at a prison term of thriving touch in approximately countries or so China's influence, highlighted this year by a security system pact with the Solomon Islands.

"New Zealand is committed to the Pacific Islands Forum as the vehicle for addressing regional challenges," Ardern aforementioned in a actor's line to the Lowy Constitute guess tankful in Australia.

"We have a strong commitment to supporting broader ambitions for our regions security," she said.

"Importantly we see local security challenges being resolved locally, with Pacific Islands Forum Members' security being addressed first and foremost by the Forum family."

China's thriving rock in the Peaceable and the possible for mobilisation in the region's little island nations has spread-out concern, peculiarly in Australia and Fresh Sjaelland as wellspring as their partner, the Concerted States.

China, pursuit on from its pact with the Solomon Islands, has been pushful for a regional co-surgical operation flock with almost a dozen Pacific nations on policing, security and data communications.

As Ardern was public speaking in Australia, her authorities proclaimed a brushup of defensive structure policy, strategy and aforethought investment, in separate because of an "intensification of geo-strategic competition".

Ardern aforesaid that though Peaceable co-military operation should be molded by various agreements in grade and regional groupings, that did non have in mind that others would not make an occupy in engaging with the area.

"It would be wrong to characterise this engagement, including that of China, as new. It would also be wrong to position the Pacific in such a way that they have to `pick sides'," she aforementioned.

New Zealand Curate of Refutation Peeni Henare, in announcing the demurrer review, box culvert said the field worked day by day with Allies to protect surety and constancy in the neighborhood.

"The importance of this review is paramount so that we can make sure future investments are fit for purpose in a post COVID-19 environment, a Pacific region grappling with climate change and the intensification of strategic competition, and a world which is seeing a brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russia," Henare aforesaid.

Alien ministers of the Pacific Islands Meeting place are owed to fulfil in Fiji on Friday merely the ministers from both Australia and Fresh Sjaelland leave not be able to wait on.

Australian Extraneous Minister Cent Wong volition be at a G20 group meeting in Dutch East Indies piece Recently Zealand's Nanaia Mahuta has COVID-19, their offices said, adding that former tip officials would give ear alternatively.

(Coverage by Lucy Craymer; Redaction by Henry M. Robert Birsel)