Kiribati has defended its last-minute decision to call off a meeting between President Taneti Maamau, Foreign Minister Taneti ...

The government of Kiribati is suspending all diplomatic visits to the tiny Pacific Island nation until next year and has cancelled some already planned, because it is in the midst of an election ...

"The strong bonds between Kiribati and New Zealand will enable a resolution to this unfortunate standoff," the Kiribati President's Office said on Monday.

New Zealand congratulated Kiribati's Taneti Maamau after the pro ... Members of the new Parliament then nominated three ...

A NZ-born Kiribati member of Parliament, Ruth Cross Kwansing, has tried to bring in some Pacific common sense into the diplomatic tiff between her country and Aotearoa New Zealand. Her original title ...

Tabai, who was the first president of Kiribati, said he asked in parliament why there was no allocation for the various commitments. "My question was, when they made that [commitment] during the ...

Parliamentary system Kiribati’s parliamentary system is described as a blend of both the British and American systems. The country has a unicameral parliament (Maneaba ni Maungatabu) usually composed ...

Foreign Minister Winston Peters has hit back at comments by the Kiribati education minister that the nation's leader, Taneti Maamau, had a pre-planned commitment, which resulted in him snubbing the ...

New Zealand is reconsidering all development funding to the aid-dependent island nation of Kiribati, following a diplomatic ...

Pacific leaders frustrated It is not just New Zealand that Maamau has refused to meet. Over the last two years, Pacific ...