Fiji's voice is heard at the UN

France was taken to task at a meeting of the United Nations Trusteeship Council by a Fiji representative, Mr Poseci Bune.

After welcoming promised reforms by the New Hebrides condo minium partners, Britain and France, Mr Bune said he regretted there were examples of colonial exploitation in the Pacific region in New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna and French Polynesia.

The administering power, he said, had not made any effort to im plement the declaration on decolonisation in those territories.

Earlier, Mr Bune referred to Pitcairn, saying that with its popu lation of less than 90 persons, the prospect of constitutional develop ment in the accepted sense in that territory was as remote as the island ltSe,f of the position in the GEIC, Mr Bune said that, although the sepa ration of the Ellice Islands would mean fragmentation of an already small territory, it was his delegation's view that the wishes of the majority of the population should be paramount and respected.

Several speakers referred in favourable terms to New Zealand s role in the attainment of self-government on Niue Island.