Achievements Willy Telavi is the second longest serving police commissioner in the South Pacific. Moreover, under his premiership Tuvalu became a founding member of the Polynesian Leaders Group, which aim is to co-operate on a great number of issues such as trade, investment,culture, education, language, education, and rmeasures of coping with the climate change. What is more, Tuvalu's government led by Willy Telavi was one of only six countries that recognized Abkhazia as a sovereign state.