It is time to move forward without them.

Those were the words of interim Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama in his opening remarks at the third political forum as he informed political party leaders of the reasons why the SDL, NFP, UPP and the Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party have been excluded from the forum today.

Commodore Bainimarama also accused the Fiji Times and Fiji Televison as being anti-Fiji saying that they are merchants of doom and gloom as they continue to oppose everything the interim government does.

The meeting proper then got underway with discussions pertaining to the composition of the president’s political dialogue forum, the participation of the civil society organizations, the module for decision making, selection of the mediation team for the forum.

The interim Prime Minister stressed that these need to be finalized by this afternoon so that the UN and Commonwealth can be invited to commence the president’s dialogue forum.