Resumption of aid upsets Bavadra
NZPA-AAP Nandi The deposed coalition Prime Minister, Dr Timoci Bavadra, has told the Australian Government of his "disappointment” over its planned resumption of aid to Fiji.
A coalition spokesman, Dr Tupeni Baba, said yesterday Dr Bavadra wrote to the Australian Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, ,late last week, through the Australian High Commission in Suva.
The High Commission confirmed yesterday that
the letter — one of a number from Dr Bavadra over the last nine months — had been telexed to Canberra. Dr Baba said the coalition was "greatly disappointed” with the decision, especially from the Government of a party with principles similar to those of the Fiji Labour Party component of the ousted Fiji Government. The decision, resulting from a new Australian policy of recognising States rather than Govern-
ments, could be construed by many as legitimising the illegal overthrow of the Bavadra Administration in the first military coup last May, and later events.
The former coalition Education Minister, who lobbied his party’s case before the Australian Labour Party’s foreign relations and defence committees last year, said Canberra appeared to have bowed to economic pressures.
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