"Since establishing diplomatic relations with China, we have been accused and intimidated by external plus plus."

According to Reuters on September 24, the Solomon Islands Prime Minister Sogovre said on the same day that since the establishment of diplomatic relations with China, his country has been "a series of unpredictable and should not be criticized, rumored and intimidated."

Sogovre delivered a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in the United States that day. He believed that his country was "unfair attack" and "slander" in the media. This treatment "threatened our democracy and sovereignty."

Screenshot of the video of Sogovare's speech at the UN General Assembly

The Solomon Islands had previously been the "diplomatic relations" of the Taiwan authorities. In 2019, the country "broke diplomatic relations" with Taiwan and turned to build diplomatic relations with the mainland. Sogovre pointed out at the decision to decide: "This is made by a election government through democratic procedures. I once again call on everyone to respect our sovereignty and democracy."

He said the Solomon Islands adopted a foreign policy of "making friends with everyone and not being enemy".

"When implementing this policy, we will not form alliances with any threatened region and international peace external forces or security architectures.

He emphasized: "Our struggle is to develop our country. We extend the hand of friendship and seek sincere cooperation and partnership with all countries."

As Sogvarre said, in April this year, the China Institute officially signed a bilateral security cooperation framework agreement. To help the institute strengthen the ability to maintain their national security, aiming to promote the stability and long -term safety of the Solomon Islands.

However, it is such an openness, transparent, open and inclusive agreement, but not targeted at any third party agreement, but was stared at by Western countries led by the United States, causing their "alert".

The Prime Minister of New Zealand stated that "serious concerns", senior US officials have been visiting many years, and the person in charge of the Australian intelligence came to the door. The Australian media not only hyped the so -called "leak documents", tried to provoke the relationship between China, and even publicized the "invading the Solomon Islands and overturning the regime" Essence

Just on the 6th of this month, when the Solomon Islands government submitted a constitutional amendment to the parliament due to domestic affairs, when the parliamentary term was extended for seven months, the Australian side claimed to be on the same day that Australia had proposed to the office for its election to the election to its election Funding. The Solomon Islands publicly accused Australia accusing Australia attempting to "influence the (institute) parliament voting for the proposed bill", saying that this approach is "inappropriate", which is "an attack on our parliament's democratic system and a direct foreign government's direct our domestic affairs to our domestic affairs. put one's oar in".

According to Reuters, Sogovre will be invited to participate in a summit hosted by the US President Biden next week with the leaders of the Pacific Island country. The United States hopes to show the United States' commitment to the Pacific region through this summit.

Kurt Campbell, the chief policy coordinator of Biden's Indo -Pacific region, said he was looking forward to talking to Sogovre, saying that the Solomon Islands would benefit from a series of new initiatives.

Campbell added: "We know what we are worried about, we don't want to see ... a remote force projection ability."

Reuters pointed out that just last month, Sogovre canceled plans to attend World War II commemorative activities with senior American officials, and then announced that all foreign naval vessels were prohibited from entering his port, but the party welcomed a one of the party. American Naval Hospital ships that perform humanitarian mission.

On September 5, Solomon pointed out on the ban on warships that the ban on foreign warships' suspension of the country will be canceled soon, and the warships in Australia and New Zealand can get exemption. Sogvar also clarified that the promulgation of the temporary ban was because the party needs time to handle the "sudden increase" access request and is not targeted at the United States.

Source: Observer.com

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