Climate change will top the agenda as leaders of 18 nations meet in Tonga from August 26.
Three months after the French Pacific territory was rocked by a wave of unrest, an uneasy calm has returned.
Seven pro-independence activists, including protest leader Christian Tein, have been moved to France.
Police vehicles burned and roads blocked in Pacific territory after arrested pro-independence activists moved to France.
Pro-independence leader Christian Tein among seven flown to the mainland after last month’s large-scale riots.
Christian Tein is accused of instigating riots against French rule last month that killed nine people.
The Pacific territory has been rocked by unrest over Paris’s plan to allow more Europeans the vote in provincial polls.
President meets political leaders on French-ruled Pacific island, says changes won’t be implemented ‘by force’.
France’s president is visiting the Pacific territory where electoral reform plans have led to the worst unrest in years
Noumea’s international airport remains closed; Australia and New Zealand to use military planes to evacuate tourists.
Dozens of barricades dismantled along key road linking airport to capital Noumea, French officials say.
France’s Pacific Islands territory has been rocked by riots for nearly a week over planned electoral reforms.
Hundreds of heavily armed marines and police patrol the French territory’s capital Noumea after a night of violence.
Azerbaijan previously condemned French colonialism in overseas territories. France backed Armenia on Nagorno-Karabakh.
