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Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare meets with the President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen, July 2016. Solomon Islands is a member of the United Nations, Interpol, Commonwealth of Nations, Pacific Islands Forum, Pacific Community, International Monetary Fund, and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries (Lomé Convention).
The flag of the governor-general featuring St Edward's Crown. Solomon Islands is one of fifteen independent nations, known as Commonwealth realms, which shares its sovereign with other realms in the Commonwealth of Nations, with the monarch's relationship with Solomon Islands completely independent from his position as monarch of any other realm. [14]
Politics of Solomon Islands takes place within the framework of a parliamentary representative democratic, constitutional monarchy. Solomon Islands is an independent Commonwealth realm, where executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and a multi-party parliament.
Map of Solomon Islands, circa 1989. Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in the Melanesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific Ocean.This page is about the history of the nation state rather than the broader geographical area of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which covers both Solomon Islands and Bougainville Island, a province of Papua New Guinea.
The Solomon Islands (archipelago) is an island group in the western South Pacific Ocean, north-east of Australia. The archipelago is in the Melanesian subregion and bioregion of Oceania and forms the eastern boundary of the Solomon Sea. The many islands of the archipelago are distributed across the sovereign states of Papua New Guinea and ...
The Solomon Islands archipelago occupies a strategic position 1,600 km (990 miles) northeast of Australia. Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he looked forward to working closely ...
Solomon Islands SLB English: Solomon Islands Pijin: Solomon Aelan: Honiara: 707,851 28,896 km 2 (11,157 sq mi) Tonga Kingdom of Tonga TON English: Tonga — Kingdom of Tonga Tongan: Tonga — Pule'anga Tonga: Nukuʻalofa: 106,017 747 km 2 (288 sq mi) Tuvalu TUV English: Tuvalu Tuvaluan: Tuvalu: Funafuti: 11,204 26 km 2 (10 sq mi) Vanuatu ...
Unlike most other Commonwealth realms, the governor-general of Solomon Islands is nominated by the country's Parliament, rather than being proposed by its prime minister (as is the convention in the other Commonwealth realms). The appointment is made by the monarch of Solomon Islands following a simple majority vote of the National Parliament.