The Oceania Football Confederation is pleased to confirm that Fiji's Minister of Youth and Sport, Filipe Bole, will be attending the meeting of the Sports Ministers of the Pacific to be held at the Telstra Clear Pacific Centre in Manukau this afternoon.

The meeting, involving at least 10 ministers from across the Pacific, will be hosted by OFC as part of the inaugural Pacific Youth and Sports Conference which has seen 800 young people from 17 countries take part this week.

OFC General Secretary Tai Nicholas said he is delighted the Fijian Minister can attend, considering the travel restrictions that have been in place since the 2006 military coup.

Nicholas said Sport can be used as a tool to bring unity and they are seeing that in practice with this youth and sports conference and sports ministers meeting.

He said they would like to thank the New Zealand Government for their role in allowing Bole to attend.

According to Nicholas, AOFC's vision, inspired by President Reynald Temarii, is to integrate sport for positive social development throughout the Pacific.

They will advocate this during the meeting and put forward six defined proposals which will assist all sports and stakeholders to implement "Sport for Development projects".