Winston Peters' visit to Fiji shows importance of Pacific

Winston Peters' visit to Fiji shows importance of Pacific
Winston Peters' Fiji trip is the first bilateral engagement overseas of NZ's new government. (Image: BusinessDesk)
Dileepa Fonseka
A few kilometres from the hotel where deputy prime minister Winston Peters stayed in Suva lies a shipwreck that tells you something important about life in a small, under-resourced country. Le Samourai has been sitting in Suva’s harbour for several years mired in disputes over ownership, along with debates over who is responsible for moving it and whether the task of shifting the wreck is even worth anybody’s while.  Like a lot of the questions in the Pacific, it comes down to this: people might want the wreck gone, but if...

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