A Fiji Home For The Undp
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The United Nations Development Programme, which was forced to close its office in Western Samoa in July, has succeeded in persuading Fiji to allow it to transfer operations to the dominion.
Some time before Prime Minister Fiame Mataafa of Western Samoa ordered UNDP out of the country, the agency made an approach to the Fiji Government for a base in Fiji but the government refused to accept UNDP conditions which would have placed a financial burden on it.
The Fiji Government has now agreed to provide a site for the office under normal crown lease conditions, so long as Fiji does not have to make any contribution to the cost above the government’s share of the regional governments’ contributions.