“…While regional coordination has been a successful venture in Oceania, cooperation has not become integration-there is as yet no precedent for national sovereignty transfer to a regional supra-national body. In the Pacific Islands Forum, discussion of members' internal affairs of a member is taboo unless invited or approved by the country of focus (the Solomon Islands government's desire, for example, for intervention by RAMSI) (Rolfe 2000). Cooperation without integration, though, does not preclude future fusion of political institutions.…”