Notably, the Boe Declaration adopted an expanded concept of security, which encompasses “a wider range of security issues, both traditional and nontraditional, with increasing emphasis on human security, environmental and resource security, trans-national crime, and cyber security.” This is the approach taken by the Government in the National Security Strategy. The Boe Declaration includes a commitment by member countries to develop a national security strategy - Vanuatu is one of the first regional countries to adopt such a strategy. At the global level, the Strategy is aligned with the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Strategy also directly complements the attainment of objectives under the UN-supported Small Islands Developing States Accelerated Modality of Action (SAMOA) Pathway, adopted in Samoa in 2014. Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders at their annual meeting in Nauru, September 2018. The PIF is the pre-eminent regional body, comprising the island nations of the Pacific as well as Australia and New Zealand, with a number of Observer members and Dialogue partners. At the Nauru summit, Leaders concluded the land-mark Boe Declaration on Regional Security which among other things embraced the principle of “non-interference in the domestic affairs” of member countries and outlined an expanded concept of security as the basis for future regional cooperation. The SDGs are enunciated in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 70/1 of 2015 “Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. The National Security Strategy is most directly aligned with SDG 16 - “Peace and Justice, Strong Institutions” 13