Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has asked the members of parliament to avoid politicizing the issue of Fiji taking up the role of Presidency in the COP 23.
Bainimarama says they must take time to understand and educate themselves on the Paris Agreement and climate change as a whole.
He says the Leader for NFP, Biman Prasad does not seem to know this.
Bainimarama says that the statement by Prasad and other opposition figures demonstrates their lack of knowledge and understanding of the challenge before us, and that the opposition has no vision.
The Leader of Opposition Ro Teimumu Kepa than raised a point of order by asking the Prime minister to be relevant and stick to the topic at hand which is the COP 23 instead of irrelevancy.
Meanwhile Bainimarama says they have begun the task of raising the necessary funds in form of donations from Nations and Foundations.
He says the funds will be deposited into a trust fund here in Fiji that will be established with an Act of Parliament.
Bainimarama says the bill will be tabled this week.
The Prime Minister has also announced that the Chief Negotiator for COP 23 will be Nazhat Shameem Khan who is the Permanent Representative to UN in Geneva.
