Since 2003, he has spent up to a third of every year on the remote archipelago in the central South Pacific.

I think we had very fruitful discussions not only about Africa but also Pacific Islands and areas in Asia where we can cooperate.

Long ago, it was inhabited by farmers and fishermen much like everywhere else in the archipelago.

It was one of the key spices that give the Spice Islands their name, and some historians link its popularity in the spice trade to the hallucinatory effects that result from ingesting large amounts.

Thirty-seven years ago, I came to Fiji, an archipelago in the South Pacific at the western edge of the Polynesian triangle, with my parents and had my first taste of adventure travel.