Fiji's Foreign Minister Ratu Epeli Nailatikau said he expects a good reception toward the Fiji situation as he left Suva for New Zealand on Tuesday to attend the Pacific forum ministers' meeting.
"We have been honest, open and transparent in what we have been doing here in taking our country forward," the Suva-based Fijilive.com website quoted him as saying on Tuesday.
Fiji's progress to the general elections will top the agenda of the Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers meeting in New Zealand's largest city of Auckland on Wednesday.
"The Auckland meeting is another opportunity for us to brief our Forum brethren on the progress we are making in honoring the commitments we have made to the regional and international community about Fiji's return to parliamentary democracy," he was quoted as saying.
"We also have engaged closely with the international community in finding a way forward for true and sustainable democracy in Fiji. The meeting will also hear of the Commonwealth Initiative which really has been initiated at the invitation of Commodore Bainimarama, in close consultation with Rt. Hon. Don McKinnon and with funding and technical support from the Commonwealth Secretariat," he added.
Ratu Epeli also said the door was open for independent missions interested in finding out for themselves the on-the-ground progress in Fiji.
Source:Xinhua
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