Fiji given ‘policing’ report
NZPA Suva. c A New Zealand and Australian military team has handed the Fiji Government a report on how Fiji should police its 200 nautical mile economic zone. The Permanent Secretary for Home Affairs, Colonel Mosese Buadromo. said recommendations in the report were secret. But in preparing it for Fiji, Australia and New Zealand had emphasised that their assistance did not mean that they were committed to
help implementing it. The 350-island Fiji group claims more than 250.000 square kilometres in territorial waters and economic zones, but at the moment has only three small, old, 10-knot former United States Navy minesweepers to patrol them. The Fiji Government has evidence that Soutn Korean and Taiwanese fishing craft are fishing inside territorial limits. Last year the patrol vessels managed to arrest two.
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