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Provinces
Map of the Solomon Islands Provinces of the Solomon Islands
For local government, the country is divided into 10 administrative areas, of
which nine are provinces administered by elected provincial assemblies, and the
10th is the town of Honiara, administered by the Honiara Town Council.
Central
Choiseul
Guadalcanal
Honiara, Town
Isabel
Makira-Ulawa
Malaita
Rennell and Bellona
Temotu
Western
Foreign relations
Foreign relations of the Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is a member of the United Nations, Commonwealth, South Pacific
Commission, South Pacific Forum, International Monetary Fund, and the European
Economic Community/African, Caribbean, Pacific Group (EEC/ACP)/(Lome
Convention).
The political stage of the Solomon Islands is further influenced by its
diplomatic importance to the Republic of China on Taiwan and the People's
Republic of China. The Solomon Islands gives diplomatic recognition to the ROC,
recognizing it as the sole-legitimate Government of all of China, giving Taiwan
vital votes in the United Nations. Lucrative investments, political funding and
preferential loans from both the ROC and PRC are increasingly manipulating the
political landscape of the Solomon Islands.
Relations with Papua New Guinea, which had become strained because of an influx
of refugees from the Bougainville rebellion and attacks on the northern islands
of the Solomon Islands by elements pursuing Bougainvillean rebels, have been
repaired. A peace accord on Bougainville confirmed in 1998 has removed the armed
threat, and the two nations regularized border operations in a 2004 agreement.
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