Pacific Community is an international organization that provides technical advice, training, assistance, and dissemination of information in social, economic, and cultural fields to 22 governments and administrations. These are American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna.
The Conference of the Pacific Community meets once a year to examine and adopt the community’s work program and budget for the following year. The members of the Pacific Community include the countries in which programs of the community are implemented, with the addition of Australia, France, New Zealand, and the United States. Headquarters of the Pacific Community are in Noumea, New Caledonia. The official working languages of the community are English and French. The organization was founded in 1947 as the South Pacific Commission. It changed its name in 1997.
