{"id":1405844,"date":"2022-03-28T20:44:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T00:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405844"},"modified":"2022-03-28T20:45:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T00:45:01","slug":"solomons-confirms-security-negotiations-with-china-will-not-pick-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/solomons-confirms-security-negotiations-with-china-will-not-pick-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"Solomons confirms security negotiations with China, will not \u2018pick sides\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsolomons-confirms-security-negotiations-with-china-will-not-pick-sides%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405844&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-28T232054Z_1_LYNXNPEI2R15C_RTROPTP_0_UN-ASSEMBLY_1.jpg\" alt=\"Solomon Islands&#039; Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare addresses the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York\" \/><br \/>FILE PHOTO: Solomon Islands&#8217; Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare addresses the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., September 23, 2016.  REUTERS\/Eduardo Munoz<\/div>\n<p>March 29, 2022<\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY (Reuters) -Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said the backlash to his country\u2019s security negotiations with China was \u201cvery insulting\u201d, in his first comments on a proposed security treaty.<\/p>\n<p>Sogavare told his parliament on Tuesday a leaked security document with China was a draft and he would not give details on the content of any proposed deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not pressured in any way by our new friends and there is no intention whatsoever to ask China to build a military base in the Solomon Islands,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Solomon Islands had previously asked Australia to build a naval base and this was refused, because Australia said it was inappropriate given its defence programme with Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no intention, Mr Speaker, of pitching into any geopolitical power struggle,\u201d he said, adding the Pacific islands nation would not \u201cpick sides\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Australia, New Zealand and the United States have expressed concern about the potential for a security pact between the Pacific island and China which could lead to a military base. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern said on Monday it was a \u201cpotential militarisation of the region\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sogavare said he had exchanged text messages with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on the matter and also had written him a letter on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Kirsty Needham; Editing by Shri Navaratnam and Stephen Coates)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Solomon Islands&#8217; Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare addresses the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., September 23, 2016. 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