Ratu Inoke Kubuabola

Fiji will host 2017 UN Summit

It is also continuing its engagement efforts by seeking membership of the UN Human Rights Council by 2017.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Ratu Inoke Kubuabola disclosed this in Parliament Monday.

He said – “Fiji is a founding member of the Ambassadorial Group of Friends of Oceans and Seas, and we are a leading  advocate of creating a triennial Summit on Oceans and Seas that would oversee the implementation of Goal 14.”

PNG yet to pay $20m Fiji election fund

The Minister for Foreign Affairs Ratu Inoke Kubuabola confirmed this in an email to the Fiji Sun newspaper.

“Has the PNG government handed the rest of the $50million Kina it had promised to the Prime Minister?”

Ratu Inoke’s reply was – “Not yet.”

“The first installment was provided before the elections and as promised the next would be in 2015,” he said. 

As of yesterday, he said the promised amount had yet to be received.