CountriesOceaniaSolomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Oceania

UN Member since 1978

Population

724K

GDP

$1.6B

Capital

Honiara

Government

Unitary parliamentary consti...

Power & politics

Leadership, governance, and democratic trajectory.

Democracy index

5.3 / 10

UN voting record

How Solomon Islands votes at the UN General Assembly — ideological trajectory, voting partners, topic patterns, and key recent roll calls.

Ideological trajectory

Voting summary

No votes recorded for this period yet.

Bloc alignment

Bloc alignment data not available yet.

Top voting partners

Topic-level voting

Source: Erik Voeten, “United Nations General Assembly Voting Data”, Harvard Dataverse (CC0). Aggregated by Model Diplomat. Last refresh tracked in profile freshness.

Foreign policy

Bilateral posture, key relationships, and live diplomatic statements.

Foreign Policy

Solomon Islands' foreign policy under PM Manele has sought to balance its China security relationship with traditional partnerships with Australia and the US. The country's strategic location in the South Pacific, WWII history, and willingness to engage with China give it outsized diplomatic influence for its size.

Key priorities include development assistance, climate adaptation, and leveraging great-power competition for maximum benefit.

Allies

China

Australia

New Zealand

MUN Delegate Guide

As the Solomon Islands, use your position at the center of Pacific great-power competition to maximum advantage. Every major power wants your alignment -- extract development commitments from all sides.

Coordinate with the Pacific Islands Forum and the Melanesian Spearhead Group. Make climate change and sea-level rise existential priorities. Your WWII heritage (Guadalcanal) can be invoked to remind major powers of their obligations to the Pacific. Push for concrete development outcomes, not just security promises.