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New Zealand has been given the official word on whether its acting High Commissioner here will be expelled, according to the interim Government spokesman Major Neumi Leweni.
However, the Fiji Government is still not prepared to confirm anything just yet except that interim Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama has written to the NZ Foreign Minister Murray McCully regarding the matter.
This is after McCully made contact with Bainimarama yesterday. The two had a discussion via telephone although both sides are tightlipped on the conversation
Major Leweni denies any knowledge of the contents of the PM’s letter and neither could he confirm reports that acting High Commissioner Caroline McDonald would be told to go home this week.
“I don’t want to speculate. All I can say is there is discussion between the PM and New Zealand foreign affairs on the matter,” he said.
Meanwhile, its business as usual at the New Zealand High Commission in Suva and according to McCully would remain so until there is word from the Fiji Government to the contrary.
New Zealand media reports that McCully, only a month in his new job, has been taking advice from former prime minister Helen Clark in recent days about the situation.
Fiji’s interim regime has labelled New Zealand’s stance under Clark’s administration “childish” for also targeting their “innocent” family members.
But New Zealand’s new leader Prime Minister John Key has reportedly said travel bans on members of Fiji’s interim administration and their families will remain.
