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COP 23 and the Climate of In-Fighting and Power Struggle: Fijileaks comparison of the SPEECH Frank Bainimarama delivered to the Heads of Mission Meeting in April is DIFFERENT from one MINFO posted on site

15/5/2017

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Was the version posted by MINFO DOCTORED after DELIVERY at GPH?

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 We have the Minister for Climate Change Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum accusing Fiji Times and Opposition political parties of misleading the farmers about the closure of the Penang Sugar Mill in Rakiraki and yet his own Ministry of Information seems to have pumped out "doctored" speech. Here is what Bainimarama told the Heads of Mission Meeting in April, and which is not in the MINFO posting - stern warning and talk of rivalries and turf wars was damaging Fiji's COP23 Presidency

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And as I do each year, I want to warmly thank you for your commitment and hard work. But unfortunately, we also have people who aren’t team players. Who are more concerned with their own prestige and the prestige of their ministry in relation to the rest of Government. And they are holding Team Fiji back. Failing to make the positive contribution they need to make to ensure that this campaign is successful.
 
These individuals are now on notice from the team captain – me – that I will remove you from Team Fiji if you get in the way of us pulling off this win. If you get in the way of an unqualified success in November. If you get in the way of Fiji getting the world to sit up and take notice of the urgent need for radical action to save us.
 
I am issuing a direct order for everyone –without exception - to respect the lines of authority that have been established to ensure that we make a success of the COP presidency. Every permanent secretary and every minister received a letter from me recently outlining their responsibilities. So I expect you to adhere to them and convey them to your staff.
 
I don’t want to hear any more reports of rivalries and turf wars. I don’t want to hear any more complaints from the foreign diplomatic community about a lack of performance in my Ministry. Of correspondence going unanswered or invitations that either aren’t issued or don’t receive a response. And worse, foreign diplomats being admonished for raising these complaints in the first place.
 
I shouldn’t need to remind you that however exalted you may think you are, you are a civil servant - a servant of the Fijian people. And I expect you to conduct yourself as such.


The above portion is missing from the MINFO version below:
"Every permanent secretary and every minister received a letter from me recently outlining their responsibilities. So you will need to adhere to them and convey them to your staff. The clock is ticking and I want everyone completely focused on what we have to do to make the Oceans Summit and COP 23 a success. Total cooperation and constant contact are essential between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the COP 23 Secretariat that has been established in the Ministry of Economy on Level 9 of Suvavou House...And I want team players by my side as President, not turf warriors or empire builders."

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http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Speeches/HON-PM-BAINIMARAMA-ADDRESS-AT-HEADS-OF-MISSIONS-ME.aspx

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Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum opens the United States Agency for International Development’s Climate Ready Project Office in Suva. Khaiyum said adaptation is a huge focus for Fiji and the Climate Ready Office set up is timely. “Eighty-percent of all climate funds that are available goes towards mitigation and only 20 percent is allocated for adaptation which is a huge challenge for many countries like Fiji and other Pacific Island Countries (PICs) where the money is required primarily for adaptation as opposed to mitigation,”
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7 Comments
Epeli Koroi
15/5/2017 11:18:02 pm

I find similarities with how North Korea operates

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Sami
16/5/2017 01:42:47 am

BlahBlahBlah Robin Nair……Action speaks louder than words! You still seem to think that we i-taukeis are so gullible that we will be mesmerized by your high sounding, patronizing words. You seem to be the NFP’s answer to Ashwin Raj! Do us a favour and stop deceiving yourself. You should know the truth. Nayasi hates you as you took the PS job (which should have gone to Nayasi as he acted in that post for over a year!), by sucking up to you know who, with the common agenda of ousting Kubuabola. The RA hates your guts as you tried to remove her – remember that conversation in New York! You may be wondering why she disappeared to another part of the building when you came to say good bye, she did not want to see your face! Of course Arieta owes you her allegiance –you plucked her from nowhere and made her a Deputy Secretary. You used your position to make sure Yauvoli, Emberson, Ovini etc are not part of the COP23 Secretariat, you negotiated for your mates from Baker & Mckenzie (Australia) at a cost rumored to be $3500 per day! If you still think you are God’s gift to Fiji and everyone else is stupid, get your head out of your rear and face the real world.

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Tomasi Tabanidalo
16/5/2017 03:49:31 am

Kaiyum and Shaheen has claimed another scalp in Robin Nair. Its no secret that kaiyum pulls the trigger and bainimarama shoots at kaiyums command. The master and puppet has robbed Fiji of the services of another of its loyal servant.

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Welcome Home
16/5/2017 10:32:13 am

"The Secret Ministry of AG and Fish" - is where the proverbial 'Good People' go because they are obliged to by covert threats. Noreen Riols Memoir tell of her life in WW2 and now in her 90s she has been spared to recall her life and the lie she was obliged to tell her own mother when asked where she was working. A Man Called Intrepid likewise retired to Bermuda with his American-born wife to live in Fairylands in the mid 1950s and 60s. Hugh and Thistle Ross worked in Lisbon and Malta in WW2. They were all heroes and unsung. The Arc of the Moral Universe was their quest: NOT glory, not celebrity and not financial reward. Liberty and Freedom from Tyrants was their mutual goal. They were successful for a while.


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Gulong
16/5/2017 03:44:00 pm

The comments by Sami on this thread are pretty revealing of what goes on at our Ministry of Foreign Affairs - hatred, rivallary, jealousy, condesencion, the list goes on. I think Robin Bair was right if as Sami alleges he wanted to cull Kubuabola stooges from the Ministry. They were all hand picked by the Ministet, have spent over 5 years in their posts and it's time they were moved on to obscure positions in our foreign embassies or put out to pasture on retirement. Rayasi is an ambitious little jerk and isn't fit to fill the position of PS. But so is Robin Nair as he doesn't have it. I was particularly sickened by the last paragraph of his memo to staff when he quotes from the Bible. Religion is the private matter of individuals and it has no place in official correspondence to staff especially when Fiji claims to be a secular state. The right thing Nair did was to resign when his advice and talking points were rejected by his Minister. The resignation by former PS of Finance Filimone Waqabaca as HC to Wellington after the HoM meeting in Suva was a principled stand. He shows unlike the other HoMs that he has balls and a conscience. Yauvoli is another incompetent bafoom. Following the revelations from Climategate I and Ii the Trump administration, Australia, NZ, Japan and other countries have rightfully shied away from the doomsday scenario of climate change. Khaiyum, Frank Bainimarama and the expensive consultants will have very little to show after COP23. It will be like Copenhagen all over again. A lot of posturing but no real commitment from the big players.

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Chiku
17/5/2017 01:01:01 am

The doomsday scenario of climate change is very real. Some people, some communities in some parts of planet earth are already confronted by it in their daily living for survival. That's an empirically well researched and documented scientific truth. Climate change deniers cannot alter that although there is no stopping their attempt to do so with the vast funding from vested interests( see investigative journalist Christian Parenti's reports on the funding from coal corporations ). It's the same as the campaign to deny any harm was caused by tobacco and coke...
I have no quarrel with Gulongs point about incompetent people handpicked for high positions. That's patronage politics at work and it has become the norm under Bainimarama and Khaiyum's rule in Fiji.

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Gulangoo
17/5/2017 10:34:24 pm

Well major changes need to be done here ...first remove old mindsets and old hags like Litia Mawi ...also remove ambitious inexperienced pple like Nayasi who totally lack people management skills, financial skills, service delivery

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