Image: Vanuatu Tourism Office To secure our assets, infrastructure and institutions: • Safeguard critical infrastructure, supply chains, intellectual property, information technologies, communication networks and Vanuatu’s natural resources; • Security institutions which are respected, practical, modern, and well-governed. To ensure our foreign policy and external engagement maximise Vanuatu’s national interests: • Strong promotion and defence of Vanuatu’s interests regionally and internationally • close cooperation and coordination with external security and development partners which maximises Vanuatu’s national interests. • Vanuatu is respected as an active, principled and responsible player. 15