Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama has stressed that he will not allow the ethno-nationalist agenda of the past governments to re-emerge in Fiji.
This is the message he gave to a former senior civil servant and diplomat of Fiji, Peter Thomson, when Thomson met with Bainimarama recently.
Peter Thomson, a former Permanent Secretary for Information and the Secretary to the Governor General Ratu Penaia Ganilau in 1987, has told Radio Australia that he failed to persuade Bainimarama to have a dialogue process as he said the Prime Minister wants ethno-nationalism to be eradicated.
Thomson said the present government's stand is clear and that is the reason why they are concerned that the Methodist Church, the former Great Council of Chiefs, Australia and NZ are supporting the agenda of the ethno-nationalists.
Ethno-nationalist agenda will not re-emerge
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