Western Samoa
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‘won’t devalue’
Prime Minister Fiame Mata’afa, of Western Samoa, said in February that Samoa would “stand quite firm on the matter of devaluation”. She had not devalued, despite the views of New Zealand that she should devalue, and she had “no inten tion of devaluing”.
“We made the right choice,”
Mata’afa said. “And after all, it is our business.”
Mata’afa was speaking in Nauru, where he was an official visitor to the independence cele brations. Later, with his wife, he made an official trip to Aus tralia, visiting Melbourne, Can berra and Sydney.