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Issue No: 611; 21 March 2001
The German foundation, The Hans Seidel Foundation has closed its office in Fiji. The Foundation has been involved with Fiji's ethnic Fijian development for the past 22 years. Yesterday a newspaper carried a supplement of the Foundation which showed the nature of the programs which it was running. Today's Fiji Times quotes the Foundation as saying that the closure of the office was due to financial constraints. Meanwhile it has been claimed by some that the Foundation's
Fiji Office had come under scrutiny some years back for failure to abide by the
financial regulations set by the Foundation. The Foundation then was led by Ratu
Tuakitau Cakanauto, who now is a member of the Qarase regime, and who had
offered to be a part of the Speight cabinet a day after Speight took over the
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