Ati Sokomanu, Vanuatu’s former president and the only one to serve two terms, made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency in Istanbul.
The statesman was in Turkey for last week’s summit of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya.
Sokomanu said Turkey can help his country a great deal in social development and education. "Economically and politically, Turkey is a very big country, it has also an ocean but not like we have in the Pacific," he said.