Tagata o te Moana. 2013-07-06. 17:30-18:00.

A weekly wrap-up of news, issues and current affairs from the Pacific. The programme is broadcast nationwide every Saturday evening on Radio New Zealand National and is produced by the newsroom of Radio New Zealand International. The following rundown is supplied from the broadcaster’s news system:

1. Nuclear test veterans in French Polynesia are asking France to come clean at last about the effects of the tests of the 1960s and 1970s.

2. The secretary of justice in Nauru, Lionel Aingimea, says he expects to make decisions on the refugee status of some of the first asylum seekers to arrive on the island within weeks.

3. A citizens' tribunal is being held at the University of Sydney today to mark the 15th anniversary of the Biak massacre in West Papua.

4. Foreign policy scholars say Pacific Island countries need to take the steering wheel to ensure they get the most out of heightened interest both from China and the United States.

5. The National AIDS Council Secretariat in Papua New Guinea says the country's HIV/AIDS epidemic is being contained and fears the virus would become a pandemic have been allayed.

6. Public hospital patients in Samoa will no longer have to travel overseas for costly medical treatments following major improvements to the national hospital.

7. Cyclones, fires, rising sea levels and water quality have been on the discussion table this week in the lead up to the first ever joint meetings in Fiji on climate change and disasters.