In This Issue
FIJI ELECTIONS: Our Suva correspondent looks 10 at the issues behind the keenly contested poll, and analyses the results.
A NEW CONFIDENCE IN PNG DIPLOMACY: 19 Foreign Minister Ted Diro talks to P.I.M. about PNG Australia relations, New Caledonia the new relationship with Indonesia and the question of Libya in the Pacific.
CAN THE U.S. RECOVER IN THE PACIFIC?: 15 PIM reports on the conservative Hoover institute conference entitled “Red Orchestra the South West Pacific”, and covers PNG M.P. Tony Siagur u’s speech to the meeting.
NEW CALEDONIA: Forum Foreign Ministers 22 meet in Auckland. French gamble on New Caledo nia referendum.
STRONG TURN OUT IN KIRIBATI ELECTIONS 25
N.Z. Immigration Row Continues: The 22
short-lived visa free immigration scheme has soured N.Z. relations with Pacific Island Govern ments.
FLOSSES PROMOTION: PlM’s correspondents 28 reveal why Gaston Flosse had to turn in his post as Premier of French Polynesia.
PACIFIC TRAVEL COSTS: PlM’s Washington 34 correspondent finds that costs paid by organisa tions for Pacific Travel vary widely.