{"id":350283,"date":"2026-03-27T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/350283\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:52:07","slug":"watch-tuvalu-pm-feleti-teo-aims-to-future-proof-atoll-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/350283\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Tuvalu PM Feleti Teo aims to &#8220;future proof&#8221; atoll nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuvalu&#8217;s prime minister has indicated his country is looking at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/international\/pacific-news\/590706\/new-zealand-pledges-20-million-to-tuvalu-leaders-agree-to-an-eventual-treaty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signing a treaty with New Zealand<\/a> by 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The island nation has recently entered into treaties with Australia and Taiwan on climate and migration issues.<\/p>\n<p>Feleti Teo said he feels there has been a positive reception from New Zealand about following suit.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Feleti Teo sat down with Pacific Waves host Susana Suisuiki for a talanoa while in Auckland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuvalu&#8217;s prime minister has indicated his country is looking at signing a treaty with New Zealand by 2028.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-350283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}