Aust and NZ are not Pacific Island people: Sir Michael

SOLOMON STAR

PAPUA New Guinea Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare says Pacific Island nations have an obligation to each other to share views of common interest.

Sir Michael told Fiji Broadcasting Corporation he and other island leaders are at the Engaging Pacific Meeting to discuss regional issues and also talk to Fiji’s Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama.

"I’m here to also talk to Prime Minister Bainimarama and find out how things are going, and I think other leaders the same, so that we have a firm mind of what we are doing up to the Forum, as Pacific nations we have an obligation to each other and that is the reason why we are here".

Sir Michael said Bainimarama is now the recognised leader of Fiji and they want to know how things are going in Fiji.

“He’s a leader of his people, that’s his responsibility, to talk to us and share some views that he has, how things are going and what he is doing.

“And if we have to report back to main Forum, then we will say, this is how things are going in Fiji.

“He’s given dates and he’s given a timeline for democratic elections. He is the leader, recognised for a long time now, almost four years, and we allow him to look at his own process and determine the future of his own people.”

Sir Michael was also adamant that the Pacific was not politically divided, and in an exchange with FBC News, says Australia and New Zealand are not Pacific island people.

FBC News: Sir, is the Pacific politically divided?
Somare: No. Pacific is not divided. We are unified.

FBC News: Some of you are here and some are not…
Somare: Who are these people?

FBC News: Australia, New Zealand, Samoa..
Somare: Well I don’t consider Australia and New Zealand as Pacific island people, Samoa may have other reasons, as a sovereign state they determine their own stand, but we’ve decided that I attend the meeting, I attend the meeting.

Sir Michael further said that Australia and NZ don’t consider themselves as Pacific island states but as continents.

Comments

  1. I am sure Somare was thought how to read and write by the Germans and Japs so he forgot his history about the Australians and American who fought in this country.

    Sore long em, het bilong em paia pinis, larim toktok long laik bilong em nogut yupela hetpen nating.

    ReplyDelete
  2. new zealanders are definately pacific islanders, faul faul stap!
    australia may be in the pacific but it is a continent so at least somare got that one right...

    ReplyDelete
  3. Again I say “who cares”. Somare can posture and contort as much as he likes on the international stage, but “who cares”. Forget history. Who cares what happened when Somare was taught by the Japs or Germans.

    You would be shocked how little Oz cares about PNG. The average punter in Australia may falter a little when asked to point to PNG on a blank map of the world.

    The politicians of PNG for some reason have got it in its head that Oz is dependent on PNG. God forbid. PNG has been sucking on Australia’s teats since Independence, and the sooner it weans itself the better.

    Oz will survive and proper without Somare or whoever is the next PM of PNG.

    This is all part of the “blood brothers, solidarity, we will get those nasty, racist Australian colonial bastards” rhetoric to which I say “Go ahead”. Somare must continue the hatred he has of Australia – it simply feeds his ego, and satisfies the “big man” syndrome inflicting him.

    Why Australia gets involved in the affairs of Fiji, and indeed the small South Pacific countries baffles me. We have better things to do – like educate our children and prosper.

    If the banana republics want to hate our guts for prospering, then let them. But we are here to stay, and we will prosper.

    Those who want to move ahead please take a seat on the bus now departing.

    ReplyDelete
  4. I suspect that Somare, when being taught by the Japanese, was not supplied a map of the South Pacific, and has suffered since.

    Or perhaps when he pointed to the rather land mass to the south of PNG was told by his Japanese tutor that it was a mistake by the cartographer, and given some liquid eraser (or equivalent in those days).

    When is this man going to clean his spectacles ?

    ReplyDelete
  5. As a white Australian Iam sick and tired of all those ....people of PNG sucking us dry all the time. Thats it- tell them to go to....why should we prop them up all the time. who cares about them. Iam not racist but PNG must have self respect and stand on its two feet. Even their educated people and leaders seem like great pretenders. Australia should cut them loose.

    ReplyDelete
  6. As a proud PNGian I say we stop Aid altogether. No more Aid. Em tasol. Tell Australia to give it to the Iraqi and Afghans whose homes and cities they have bombed to rubble. They should go build them new homes, sew their limbs back together and bring their dead back to life with all that money. Leave us completely alone. We become second class citizens when we accept their money, when really they are the children of convicts and theives, and they donr belong to the Pacific. NZ Maoris and Aboriginese people are Pacific people, not these decendents of thieves!!!!

    ReplyDelete
  7. "Who cares". Its good to know there are no thieves in Papua New Guinea. I had a suspicion that all those inquiries were fake.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Yes we do not have thieves but big man with many wives, polygamy and the big man mentality so strong with our cultural heritage...

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Please free to leave comments.

Popular posts from this blog

MARAPE & PAITA ABOUT TO SIGN AWAY PNG GOLD

HIGHLANDS FRAUD F*CKS RUNNING GOVERNMENT AGENCY,,,

Connect PNG Unveiled: A Tale of Ambition, Scandal, and the Quest for Accountability

James Marape's Missteps Openly Exposed at Australian Forum

PNG GOVERNMENT MINISTER IN PORN VIDEO

James Marape: A Complex Political Trajectory

IS THE PM'S WIFE INVOLVED IN LAND GRABBING?