SOLOMON IS: Relations with Australia 'slow to rebuild'

Updated February 22, 2008 15:36:59

Australia's Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith is attending the the inaugural Forum Foreign Ministers Standing Committee on RAMSI in the Solomon Islands capital, Honiara. Mr Smith says he is confident of getting the Australian-led Regional Assisstance Mission RAMSI back on track. But it is unclear how much difference new faces in both the Australian and Solomon Islands governments will make in re-building relations:

Presenter: Paula Kruger
Speakers: Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith; Dr Sinclair Dinnen from the ANU's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies