Fiji, Aug. 31 -- Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr says he will push Forum Leaders to set a fixed annual date for the Pacific Islands Forum, arguing that inconsistent scheduling is making it harder to secure full attendance
Whipps said a predictable date would allow leaders and governments to plan their national and parliamentary schedules around the region's most important political gathering.
"One of the things that we want to discuss, I want to bring up with the leaders, is fixing a date as to when we would have a Forum.
"So that everybody can plan yearly that they know that this is the Forum day that is within everybody's schedule," he told Journalists in Koror.
Whipps compared the idea to the scheduling of meetings of the Associat...