[pima.nius] FIJI: Bainimarama follows Australian foreign policy in press

Title – 6932 FIJI: Bainimarama follows Australian foreign policy in press
Date – 30 July 2010
Byline – Stanley Simpson
Origin – Pacific Media Watch
Source – Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, 29/7/10
Copyright – FBC
Status – Unabridged
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FIJI PM READS AUSSIE FOREIGN POLICY 'IN THE NEWSPAPERS'
www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=29604

By Stanley Simpson

SUVA (Fiji Broadcasting Corporation/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama has told an Australian media interview that he reads about Australia's foreign policy "in the newspapers".

Bainimarama was responding to questions by Australian journalist Graham Davis on why he expelled Australia's Acting High Commissioner to Fiji, Sarah Roberts.

Bainimarama says he has never met or spoken to Roberts and she never ever visited his office, but claims she was interfering in Fiji's sovereign affairs.

Here's how the exchange went:

Davis: Did you give Sarah Roberts any warning?

Bainimarama: Yes she was given warnings. Twice I understand.

Davis: What was said to her, do you know?

Bainimarama:I don't know…Foreign Affairs spoke to her.

Davis: You're saying she took no notice.

Bainimarama: Obviously not.

Davis: Did you ever have Sarah Roberts in your office talking to you.

Bainimarama: No, she has never been to my office.

Davis: So you had the Australian High Commissioner here but she never spoke to you.

Bainimarama: She has never been to my office.

Davis: Have you spoken to her.

Bainimarama: No.

Davis: Never?

Bainimarama: Never

Davis: So whatever you hear about Australian and NZ policy…

Bainimarama: I read in the newspapers.

Bainimarama, however, says that he speaks regularly to the Indian High Commissioner, the Chinese ambassador, the French ambassador and all other diplomatic representatives except those from Australia and NZ.

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