Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. PTI is an agency of the Suva based Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, and have offices in Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan. Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission Formerly known as the Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission (PITIC) Pacific Trade Invest is the leading trade and investment facilitation organisation in the Pacific Islands region with a specific focus on export facilitation, investment and tourism promotion. Pacific Trade Invest (PTI) contributes to the sustainable economic development of the Pacific Island Countries by
History of the Pacific Islands Western Samoa became the first Pacific Island nation to gain political independence. In 1997, Samoa officially dropped the 'Western' from its name as it was an appendage from its colonial era. The human history of the Solomon Islands begins with the first settlement at least 30,000 years ago from New Guinea. They represented the furthest expansion of humans into the Pacific Ocean until the expansion of Austronesian-language speakers through the area around 4000 BCE, bringing new agricultural and maritime technology. Most of the languages spoken today in the Solomon Islands derive from this era, but some thirty languages of the