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Friday, October 19, 2007

FORUM: Tonga PM Says Fiji Agreement Shows How Solomons Should Have Been Handled

By Samantha Magick in Nuku'alofa
Friday: October 19, 2007

Tonga’s Prime Minister and Pacific Islands Forum Chair, Dr Feleti Sevele says the agreement reached over elections in Fiji shows the opportunity lost by Solomon Islands by not attending this week’s leaders’ meeting.

While the Forum got an undertaking from Fiji interim Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama that elections would be held in the first quarter of 2009, discussions on RAMSI were less conclusive because both Solomon’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Patteson Oti boycotted the most crucial sessions.

The Solomon Islands government has rejected a Forum review of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI), and in particular, Australia’s role in the mission.

Dr Sevele says it’s a pity Oti didn’t come. “To me, his presence would have helped even if he didn’t hold the authority to make decisions on this. But there would have been a two way discussion and I think the decision of Fiji because of Bainimarama’s presence there shows the need to engage, the need to dialogue.”

He says it was important that Commodore Bainimarama was at the meeting. “I mean how else can we as a Forum move forward without talking to him? And that is why we felt strongly about it. And it shows also the strength of the Forum to come to grips with the hard decisions. I am confident and I think we should allow Fiji that chance. Let’s not be cynical about it. Let’s give them a break this time. Let’s say ‘Ok, you’ve been given the chance.’”

Prior to the Forum, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, one of the region’s most vocal opponents of the coup, said it would be better if the Commander didn’t attend the Forum, as he would likely be snubbed. As it turns out, Commodore Bainimarama was embraced by many, in particular ordinary Tongans. He spent Wednesday night in the company of Prime Minister Sevele going from village to village on Vava’u, drinking kava and being welcomed in the warmest way, with song, speeches, music and prayer.

While Dr Sevele is very pleased by the outcome on Fiji, he has urged the international community to give Commodore Bainimarama and his government some space to fulfill its commitments.

“I am confident that it (the agreement) will hold but there has to be understanding from the international community, and the press in particular, leave the guy alone sometimes. Don’t bombard him every day, ‘you’re not going to stick to it, you’re not going to do that.’ It’s the same action that the Forum took, sit down, talk with him, and that’s the first time that the Forum as a whole sat down with him and discussed the issues.”
The last of the bilateral meetings and a special session with the European Union is winding up today before delegations head home.

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