Fiji and New Zealand engage in ‘Diplomatic Suicide'
Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:24:48 -0800
Tensions between Fiji and New Zealand boiled over Tuesday when both countries kicked out each other’s chief diplomats. In a Tuesday afternoon press conference, Fiji’s Attorney General announced that ambassador Caroline McDonald would be expelled not because New Zealand refused to grant visas to three family members of senior officials in Fiji’s government who came to power in a December 2006 coup. Instead, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum reasoned McDonald’s “actions over the past year that have been cont
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