Tongan Prime Minister 'Akilisi Pohiva, a pro-democracy and climate change c...
WELLINGTON - Tongan Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pohiva, a pro-democracy and climate change campaigner in the South Pacific, died in a New Zealand hospital on Thursday, the information ministry and media reports said.
Pohiva, 78, had been diagnosed earlier this year with a liver complication and was admitted to a hospital in Tonga two weeks ago for pneumonia, the prime minister’s office said in a statement on Wednesday.Parliament has been deferred indefinitely, Tongan media said. “Terribly saddened to hear of the passing of Tongan Prime Minister, the Hon. ‘Akilisi Pohiva. He was a passionate advocate for his people, for his beloved Tonga & our Pacific family,” Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a Twitter post.
The small Pacific nation received a reprieve from China last year on the timing of debt repayments after it signed up to China’s Belt and Road initiative.
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