  kiribati is a full member of the commonwealth, the imf and the world bank, and became a full member of the united nations in 1999. kiribati hosted the thirty-first pacific islands forum in october 2000. kiribati has least developed country status and its interests rarely extend beyond the region. through accession to the cotonou agreement, kiribati is also a member of the african caribbean and pacific group. kiribati maintains good relations with most countries and has particularly close ties to pacific neighbours japan, australia, and new zealand. kiribati established diplomatic relations with taiwan in november 2003. kiribati briefly suspended its relations with france in 1995 over that country's decision to renew nuclear testing in the south pacific. ==regional relations== ===regional relations=== kiribati maintains strong regional ties in the pacific. it is a full member of the pacific islands forum, the south pacific applied geoscience commission, the south pacific tourism organisation, the pacific regional environment programme and the secretariat of the pacific community. kiribati is one of the eight signatories of the nauru agreement concerning cooperation in the management of fisheries of common interest which collectively controls 25-30% of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60% of the western and central pacific tuna supply . in 1985, kiribati was one of the nine initial endorsers of the treaty of rarotonga creating the south pacific nuclear free zone treaty. ===extra-regional relations=== kiribati was admitted to the commonwealth of nations in 1979 and to the united nations in 1999. additionally outside the region, kiribati is a member or participant of the acp (lomÃ© convention), the asian development bank, the economic and social commission for asia and the pacific (escap), the food and agriculture organization (fao), the international bank for reconstruction and development, the international civil aviation organization, the international red cross and red crescent movement, the international development association, the international finance corporation, the imf, international maritime organization, international olympic committee, international telecommunication union (itu), universal postal union and the world meteorological organization. finally, while kiribati is not a member of the world trade organization, it does retain observer status. kiribati is the only developing nation in the pacific never to have been a member of the group of 77. palau (which withdrew from membership in 2004) is the only other pacific developing nation that is not 
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