PIF meeting

Jacinda Ardern defends travelling separately to Nauru for PIF meeting

The main New Zealand delegation, including Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters and a media contingent, arrived in Nauru for the Forum on Monday.

Ardern will be travelling to the Micronesia island on Wednesday in the same Air Force plane, which will have to return to New Zealand to pick her up.

The prime minister could not go for the longer period as her 11-week-old daughter, Neve, is too young to be given the appropriate vaccinations for the trip and, thus, could not travel with her.

Vanuatu newspaper to boycott Forum meeting in Nauru

Dan McGarry from Vanuatu's Daily Post newspaper told the ABC he won't be attending.

"The implication here is that anybody who provides negative coverage is going to be treated exactly the same way as the ABC and that is just not on," said McGarry.

"We can't accept that kind of conditionality in our reporting. So for us it is a no brainer it is an obvious decision to make."

The Nauru government is refusing to issue ABC journalists visas because of allegations of interference in its politics, bias and false reporting.