There is a need to come together as a nation to the table and address the problems facing Fiji, before talking about what will happen after the elections.

These are the words of the Interim Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum who hopes that this is what the SDL Party and others who have decided not to endorse the People's Charter, would do.

While responding to SDL Party's National Director, Peceli Kinivuwai's statement yesterday, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum said that SDL has twice rejected invitations to be part of the National Council for Building a Better Fiji. He said the SDL needs to get out of this very parochial-politically driven agenda of theirs and think about the country as a whole.

He said if people were genuinely concerned about the future of Fiji, then there is a need to address the issues confronting the nation. The Attorney General said that there is a need to make a plan, ask where we want to see ourselves in the next 5, 10 or 20 years and adds that there is nothing illegal or unconstitutional about this.

Kinivuwai had said yesterday that 2007 was a year where democracy was destroyed as they had witnessed the continuous violation of human rights and deaths of innocent civilians.