31.   Keating said Pacific countries needed to change the way governments worked and managed resources.

32.   Navies from western pacific countries will meet here this week to discuss maritime conflicts and security issues in the region, the official news agency Antara reported Monday.

33.   Most Pacific countries, stuck in perpetual economic decline, say they cannot survive without the relatively small incomes their governments earn from offshore banking fees.

34.   New Zealand and Australia are working with other Pacific countries to stop voyages from getting started.

35.   Other Pacific countries with stock exchanges are Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.

36.   Such dependency was not sustainable and Pacific countries faced a decline in per capita income and standard of living, it added.

37.   The Cook Islands, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Samoa and Vanuatu are the Pacific countries targetted by the OECD.

38.   The games was an idea which had emerged from the South Pacific Forum to encourage Pacific countries to be more neighbourly.