Ms Fiame is making her first official trip to New Zealand this week, receiving an official welcome outside parliament in Wellington on Tuesday morning ahead of talks with Kiwi officials, including Jacinda Ardern.
The pair will meet again, along with Australia's Anthony Albanese and other Pacific leaders at the next leaders' meeting of the Forum (PIF), confirmed for 12-14 July in Fiji.
The Pacific finds itself in a geopolitical whirlwind, all sparked by a security agreement signed by the Solomon Islands and China earlier this year.
An unprecedented mission from China's high-powered foreign minister Wang Yi to 10 Pacific nations followed last month, including Samoa.
During that visit, Samoa and China signed an "economic and technical cooperation agreement", without elaborating on what those "projects to be determined" may be.
Asked about "the frenzy" of interest from Australia and New Zealand in China's engagement in the Pacific, Ms Fiame responded calmly.
"We are not frenzied," she said at a joint press conference alongside Ms Ardern.
"There are no discussions between Samoa and China on militarisation at all."
The Samoan PM was one of a number of leaders to knock back a regional-wide security deal with China, saying the Pacific needed to discuss the matters as a region - something that will take place at the forthcoming PIF.
Pacific leaders are party to an agreement known as the Biketawa Declaration, signed in 2000, which requires countries to cooperate on many matter, including security, before seeking help from outside the region.
Ms Fiame said the PIF meeting could explore whether Biketawa needs an upgrade or a revision.
"It's a good opportunity for the region to consider security issues in the context of something that is current and to test the usefulness of the instruments that we already have in place," Ms Fiame said.
"If they're not enough, then it's an opportunity to have that discussion around that.
"The issue arose out of the agreement between the Solomons and China. The issue needs to be considered in the broader context of what we have in place and what we want to do in terms of the security provisions for the region."
Ms Ardern said the Pacific had "the capability and the capacity to deal with security issues" on its own.
"As a forum we'll come together. We'll discuss these issues. We'll hope to build consensus. But we also will need to continue to respect the sovereignty of every nation who's a member," she said.
Ms Fiame said she believed Micronesian nations, who had previously threatened to leave PIF, would arrive for the Fiji meeting after mediation talks last week.
"We're very confident that Northern members of the family are returning to the fold, so to speak," she said.
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