‘Like a rugby coach on the eve of a crucial championship, we need to come together as Team Fiji now more than ever before.’
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama made this comment while addressing the Heads of Mission Meeting 2017.
Bainimarama says we are two months out from co-hosting the UN Oceans Summit in New York and are seven months out from presiding over COP-23– the ongoing UN climate negotiations in Bonn whereby time is running out for both.
He says this is the most important foreign policy commitment that we have ever undertaken not only on behalf of Fiji but the entire Pacific and every single climate-vulnerable nation in the world.
Bainimarama adds that like any athlete, we must prepare for it.
The Prime Minister stresses that it is the biggest job the world has ever given to us and we will have to be at our intellectual and physical peak – both as individuals and as a nation.
Bainimarama adds that because we are among the most vulnerable to climate change and the fate of our people and our island life hangs in the balance.
He urged every single head of mission and every Fijian diplomat to make the Oceans Summit and COP their top priority.
The Prime Minister highlights that he wants our Pacific brothers and sisters to stand shoulder to shoulder with us every inch of the way.
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