Five parliamentary delegations of the Pacific island countries will pay an official goodwill visit to China together June 14-21 at the invitation of Chinese top legislator Wu Bangguo.

The five delegations will be led respectively by Isaac Figir, Speaker of the National Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia; Tu'ilakepa, Speaker of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Tonga; Manu Korovulavula, Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee in Fiji; Billy Talagi, Chairman of the Bills Committee of the Parliament of Niue and Lino Bulekuli Dit Sacsac, Clerk of the Parliament of the Republic of Vanuatu.

(Xinhua News Agency June 12, 2009)