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Solidarity Messages needed for Fiji!Date: 21 May 2000
Even though Fijian Labour Government Ministers are being released the political situation in this Pacific island country is still uncertain, the leader of the Fijian trade union movement, Felix Anthony, told Workers Online and LabourStart early on Sunday morning. "At this stage we are still eager for the international union movement to continue to maintain solidarity with the workers of Fiji, " Mr Anthony said. Mr Anthony - who is both Secretary of the Fiji TUC and the Fiji Sugar and General Workers Union - can be contacted with messages of solidarity at the following e-mail address: fsgwu@is.com.fj The union leader has continued his call for unions and human rights groups to telefax the President of Fiji, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, to call for the maintenance of democratic norms. Ratu Mara's telefax is: 679 301 645. In Australia the ACTU President, Sharan Burrows, has talked with Pratap Chand - the Fiji Education Minister who is in hiding in Sydney. Chand is being helped by union contacts in Sydney and is in close contact with people back in Fiji. Burrows has known and been friends with Pratap Chand for nearly a decade as both of them are former leaders of their respective national Teacher Unions. Ms Burrows is going onto Australian national television this morning, a Sunday morning current affairs program, to call for Australia's government to bring appropriate pressure onto the hostage-takers so as to return Fiji to democracy. The Fiji union leadership has been thankful for the messages of solidarity to date. They have intermittently been able to monitor international union websites such as LabourStart to learn about what the world is being told about Fiji. When Workers Online and LabourStart spoke to Mr Anthony on Sunday morning he was planning to drive into the national capital, Suva, to speak with some of the Ministers who had been released after being taken hostage in Parliament House. "Everything is still very uncertain. We don't know what will happen next," said this morning.
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