Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says he is attending meetings overseas that will assist Fiji in getting its voice heard, develop business relations and ensure that our country gets the best business and trade deals.

While speaking in Ra today, Bainimarama said there is cheap political talk coming from the opposition suggesting that he is swanning around the world doing nothing.

Bainimarama says many of the people in Rakiraki would have seen him there eight days ago when he opened the new Rakiraki bridge.

The Prime Minister said that he will explain his program of the last seven days and people can judge themselves whether he is doing his job properly.

Bainimarama said a week ago, he opened the second National Women’s Expo in Suva where more than 600 women gathered to sell their products. On that night, he says he launched the PGA Fiji International Golf Tournament in Natadola, an event that is showcasing Fiji to a potential global television audience of 380 million people in 27 countries.

The Prime Minister says last Thursday, he travelled to Sydney on one of his most important overseas missions ever, re‑engaging with the Australian Government at a high level and re‑connecting with many of the 50,000 Fijians who now live in Australia.

He met Australia’s new Minister for the Pacific, addressed the Australia‑Fiji Business Forum that is made up of the most important people driving the $3‑billion a year trade between Fiji and Australia. He also attended a Fiji Day gathering in Sydney attended by about 10 to 15 thousand people, mainly Fijians in Sydney.

He had further meetings on Sunday and attended a church service.

Bainimarama says he came back to Fiji on Monday, had a series of meetings in Suva yesterday, and is now back in Rakiraki, coming full circle to where he was just eight days ago.

He says in the coming weeks and months, he will be travelling overseas again.

Bainimarama will attend a sugar meeting in London, the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Malta and the great United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris at the end of November, at which he intends to lead the charge with the other leaders of the Small Island Developing States to get the world to finally wake up.

He says he will continue to do what is important for the people of Fiji.