Fiji sugar pact reached<\/p>\n
SUVA, Fiji – An agreement was reached between the Fiji Sugar Corporation and the Fiji Sugar and General Workers Union to allow the union to go into a business partnership with the corporation.<\/p>\n
Union General Secretary Felix Anthony said FSC would provide a capital of $461,000 to start off the business.<\/p>\n
The FSC would also provide personnel to run the business for the first 18 months.<\/p>\n
Anthony said the deal would provide employment opportunities for workers and financially strengthen the union.<\/p>\n
PNG to host Pacific naval symposium<\/p>\n
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea – Papua New Guinea will host the 8th annual Western Pacific Naval Symposium next year.<\/p>\n
Navy chiefs from 15 member countries attending this year’s symposium in Auckland, New Zealand unanimously voted in favor of PNG as the host nation for the workshop in September 2001.<\/p>\n
The symposium’s goal is to increase naval cooperation in the Western Pacific among navies by providing a forum to discuss regional and global maritime issues.<\/p>\n
Indonesia’s Wahid visits W. Papua<\/p>\n
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesia’s President Wahid flew to West Papua, also known as Irian Jaya, to attend Christmas celebrations.<\/p>\n
President Abdurrahman Wahid’s visit in the provincial capital Jayapura, is aimed at calming calls for independence.<\/p>\n
Separatist leaders say they have not received an invitation to attend, nor have they requested to meet with the president.<\/p>\n
Papuan Presidium Council Mediator Willy Mandowen said presidium members will not hold talks with the president until Jakarta develops a coherent policy on dealing with the people of Papua.<\/p>\n
Swiss journalists of torture in W. Papua jails<\/p>\n
JAKARTA, Irian Jaya – A Swiss journalist, recently released from prison in West Papua, told a Swiss newspaper that he saw Indonesian police torture Melanesians detained in the same cell.<\/p>\n
Oswald Iten, a reporter for the daily Neue Zuericher Zeitung, spent 10 days in jail for illegally working under a tourist visa.<\/p>\n
Iten was in the West Papuan capital of Jayapura early this month for the anniversary celebrations by pro-independence Papuan separatists.<\/p>\n
He says he was in the same jail as five members of the separatist movement, including their leader Theys Eluay. (Pacific Islands Report)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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