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Monday, February 19, 2007

Solomons to return Moti if govt changes

The West.co.au
19th February 2007, 11:33 WST

Wanted Australian lawyer Julian Moti will be sent back to Australia if the Solomon Islands opposition seizes power in a no confidence vote due this week against Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare.

At a weekend meeting, opposition members also resolved that if they form a new government they will mend relations with Canberra and reinstate ousted police commissioner Shane Castles.

Castles, an Australian, was declared an undesirable migrant by the Sogavare government in December and barred from returning to the Solomons after taking leave in Australia.

Moti is wanted to face charges in Australia that he raped a 13-year-old girl in Vanuatu in 1997.

The no-confidence motion against Sogavare, filed by opposition MP William Haomae, is likely to be put on Friday but it is unclear if the opposition has the numbers to win.

Sogavare comfortably survived a no-confidence vote in October after a motion was put by opposition leader Fred Fono in the 50-member parliament.

In past months, Sogavare has lost a number of senior MPs and party leaders from the government side, including former prime ministers Bart Ulafa'alu and Francis Billy Hilly, and his former deputy prime minister Job Dudley Tausinga.

Opposition members said in a statement a new government would repatriate Moti because he was a main cause of the embarrassing and damaging diplomatic row between Honiara and Canberra.

Sogavare wants Moti to be his attorney-general but he remains suspended from that appointment because of the seriousness of the Australian charges against him.

Canberra was angered by Moti's escape from Port Moresby to the Solomons on a Papua New Guinea military flight and by Sogavare's continued protection of his longtime adviser.

The opposition said Castles and former attorney-general Primo Afeau would be reinstated and investigations launched into their dismissals.

"We believe that Mr Castles was dismissed because he had initiated the investigation into the Moti affair and other criminal investigations into offences alleged to have been committed by national politicians."

The opposition said it would seek to mend relations with Canberra following a series of diplomatic disputes since Sogavare came to power last May.

Sogavare wants reduced Australian influence in the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI), which arrived in mid-2003 to restore law and order and good governance after years of ethnic unrest.

The opposition said it would also put on hold a controversial plan by Sogavare's government to re-arm the nation's police force, starting with the prime minister's close protection unit.

This month, the government easily defeated a motion, 27 votes to 19, calling for the scrapping of the plan.

It is opposed by the opposition, RAMSI, women's, church, business and other non-government organisations.

The premier of the Solomons' Western Province has even threatened to seek independence if the re-arming plan goes ahead.

AAP

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