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![[Flag of Melanesian Spearhead Group]](../images/i/int-msg.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 21 November 2011
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The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG, French: Groupe Mélanésien Fer de Lance"
(GMFL)) is composed of Fiji (observer until 1996), Papua New Guinea, Solomon
Islands, Vanuatu and FLNKS (New Caledonia). The "Agreed Principles of
Cooperation Among the Independent States in Melanesia" was signed on 14 March
1988, following an informal meeting held on 17 July 1986 in Goroka, Papua New
Guinea. The Secretariat of the MSG was formally established on 30 May 2008 in
Port-Vila, Vanuatu. Indonesia and Timor Leste were granted the observer status
during the 18th Summit held on 31 March 2011 in Suva, Fiji.
Source: MSG Secretariate
website
Ivan Sache, 05 November 2011
A photo published by the PINA news agency shows a row of flags, hoisted in
front of the MSG Secretariate in Port-Vila, from left to right: Fiji, Solomon
Islands, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, FLNKS and MSG. The flag of MSG is white with
the organization's emblem in the middle. The emblem of MSG is a disk
horizontally divided green-blue, with a white spearhead placed horizontally,
shaped like a sailing boat leaving a wake. <http://www.pina.com.fj/?p=pacnews&m=read&o=12290557464e72e822d109d371e6be
The flag, the first MSG ever had, was unveiled in October 2010. The designer
is Florence Toka, from Vanuatu. The article says that the MSG was originally set
up to back up the claim of FLNKS to independence.
http://www.tahiti-infos.com/Le-Groupe-Melanesien-Fer-de-Lance-fait-flotter-son-nouveau-drapeau_a10408.html
Tahiti Infos, 6 October 2010 [the flag presented as "the MSG flag" is indeed the
FLNKS flag. The flag of MSG is not shown on the photo, either.]
Ivan Sache, 05 November 2011
Radio New Zealand International reported on 05 October, 2010. Melanesian
Spearhead Group now has an official flag. Article:
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=56268
Images of flag:
http://www.pina.com.fj/index.php?p=pacnews&m=read&o=21460199074d926213dc3c99bdbc11
http://www.msgsec.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=125
Zoltan Horvath, 21 November 2011
![[Flag of Melanesian Spearhead Group]](../images/i/int-msg1.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 05 November 2011