Samoa

France and Samoa

Date of update: May 26th 2026

French presence

France opened an embassy in Samoa in February 2025, its first in the Polynesian area.

Diplomatic representation of Samoa in France is provided by the Samoan Embassy in Brussels, Belgium.

The French community in Samoa is very small.

Visits

Prime Minister Naomi Mata’afa took part in the Sixth Pacific-France Summit in Nice on 10 June 2025, during which she met with the President of the French Republic for a bilateral meeting.

Former Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi attended the Fourth France-Oceania Summit, held in Paris on 26 November 2015, as well as the Paris Climate Conference (COP21) in December 2015. He also attended the high-level dialogue held in Nouméa in May 2018 at the headquarters of the Pacific Community and closed by the French President.

Cultural, scientific and technical cooperation

France’s cultural, scientific and technical cooperation in Samoa is based on increasing academic cooperation with the University of French Polynesia and conducting projects under the French Foreign Ministry’s Pacific Fund.

Annuaire des représentations samoanes en France