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Commit to election first, says Clark   2 Oct 2008 FIJI SUN  There are obvious signs of willingness among political leaders in Fiji to commit to the implementation of an agreed framework for further reform and national reconciliation after an election, says New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark. She said it was only then, when Pacific Island Forum leaders would guarantee their support for the country and would even be guarantors for the full implementation of any reforms and nation buil

Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has left a meeting with Fiji's coup leader tight-lipped about whether the military regime has made any promises for returning the South Pacific country to democracy.

Fiji's military coup leader Voreqe Bainimarama has angered Foreign Minister Winston Peters with new talk that democratic elections are likely to be delayed.

Foreign ministers from New Zealand and Australia say they are willing to talk with the interim Fijian government but that they won't reward "bad behaviour".

The South Pacific seemed to be the perfect refuge for Peter Foster, the Australian conman barred from Britain after drawing Cherie Blair into a scandal over her purchase of two flats in Bristol.

WELLINGTON: Commonwealth Secretary-general Don McKinnon hopes to have a faceto-face meeting with Fiji?s interim Prime Minister at the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga this week.

OK we?ve had enough of this junta but our options are limited and we just have to go with the flow RIGHT? Wrong ... spending like there?s no tomorrow (did you believe the 4 full paged propaganda in a Saturday Fiji

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