Quoted

“Our once peaceful Pacific neighbour hood has been well and truly turned into a bloodbath.”

Papua New Guinea Prime Minis ter Paias Wingti on the killing of Kanaks in New Caledonia.

“Outrageous, condescending, dis torted and damaging”

Solomon Islands PM Mr Ezekiel Alebua, commenting on a radio report on the expulsion of Australian busi nessmen from the Solomon Islands.

“A strange collection of confessions, confusions and contradictions. . .little more than an exercise in self-praise, demonstrating a sense of guilt and de lusions of grandeur”, Dr Timoci Bavadra’s critique of No Other Way , Brigadier Sitiveni Rabu ka’s account of the Fiji coups.

“There should be no negotiation be tween governments and terrorist reb els: the only alternatives are for the rebels to surrender or for their extermination”.

National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, in a radio interview about New Caledonia.

“France has not discharged its obliga tion to lift the level of education, train ing and experience among the Kanak people. Its greatest task now is to en sure all the people know they have a stake in New Caledonia’s future”.

Australian PM Bob Hawke on the French Government’s rhetoric follow ing the first round of elections in New Caledonia.