- Lecture Series for the 40th Anniversary conducted in Port Vila and Suva
- Leaders adopted the Waiheke Declaration on Sustainable Economic Development
- Forum Leaders’ passed a Statement on NonCommunicable Diseases
- The first ever attendance at the Forum Leaders meeting by a Secretary-General of the UN – Mr Ban Ki Moon
- Joint Statement of Pacific Islands Forum Leaders & the Secretary-General of the United Nations…. Emphasised the value of cooperation between the UN system and the PIFS
- The Secretary General Tuiloma Neroni Slade appointed as the Pacific region’s first Ocean Commissioner
