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Fiji’s re-admittance a priority issue at Pacific Islands Forum

Fiji’s re-admittance a priority issue at Pacific Islands Forum
Fiji's possible re-admittance to the Pacific Islands Forum is likely to be a priority issue at the Forum currently underway in the Marshall Islands.

Forum Deputy Secretary General Feleti Teo told ABC News when Fiji was suspended in 2009, leaders agreed that Fiji would be invited back once progress was being made towards returning to democracy.

Teo said with the release of the Fiji Constitution and voter registration finalized, the leaders have to determine whether they should act now or wait until the elections.

Meanwhile, Fiji's Foreign Affairs Minister Ratu Inoke Kubuabola had earlier said that Fiji would only rejoin the Pacific Islands Forum if it significantly changes, and that Australia and New Zealand needed to decide to either be donors or members, but not both.

Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama had also said the existing regional structure for the past four decades - the Pacific Islands Forum - is for Governments only and has also come to be dominated only by a few.

 
Story by: Sofaia Koroitanoa

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