India will be hosting the 2015 Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation Summit, in Jaipur on August 21. This event will be attended by more than 14 Pacific Island nations including: Fiji, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
This will be the second FIPIC summit, the first one being held in Fiji in 2014 and attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who recommended making this an annual event.
The delegates, which will contain six Heads of Governments, four Heads of States, one Vice President are set to arrive on August 18 and 19 in Delhi. They will spend August 20 in Delhi before travelling to Jaipur for the conference on August 21.
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