Australia to send in forces, if needed, but Solomons PM Manasseh Sogavare says he hopes agreement will never be usedAustralia and the Solomon Islands have signed a new security treaty – one the Solomons’ prime minister hopes will “collect dust” and never be used. Life along the vanishing shorelines of the Solomon Islands – in pictures Read more“The security treaty is ‘just in case’,” Sogavare said Monday, “if the Solomon Islands goes back to what it was in the 2000s. “In 2017 we see a very different Solomon Islands,” he said. “The responsibility now lies with the government and the people of the Solomon Islands to take it from there. The environment is there for the Solomon Islands government and private sector to take the country forward.”Sogavare’s relationship with Australia has not always been so cordial.

Source: The Guardian August 14, 2017 22:07 UTC