Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum confirmed that Fiji paid for the airfare back for some members of the Australian and NZ union delegation that was asked to go back to Sydney yesterday afternoon.
Sayed-Khaiyum confirmed this to Pacific Beat.
Meanwhile the Attorney General said the Fijian Government has every right to refuse entry to Australian and NZ trade unionists that came on a Sydney flight yesterday afternoon.
Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum said this is Fiji’s sovereign right.
While Fiji Trades Union Congress President Daniel Urai said the government had no legal basis to ban the overseas unionists from entering the country, Sayed-Khaiyum said Urai knows that he is misleading people by saying that.
The head of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Ged Kearney now said she is more determined than ever to expose alleged abuses of workers’ rights in Fiji.
Sayed Khaiyum stressed that the Australian and NZ union delegation had already made its mind up before arriving in Fiji, and is attempting to interfere in Fiji’s internal affairs.
Story by: Vijay Narayan
Fiji paid return airfares for some ACTU/NZ union delegation
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