The Fiji Labour Party (FLP) has condemned the Coalition Government’s foreign policy stand supporting “human rights violations in Israel and China”.
FLP leader Mahendra Chaudhry queried how such policies would translate into a Fiji context.
“Should we worry that our own human rights situation here could well be endangered or compromised now that we have a government supporting human rights violations elsewhere in the world?” he said.
“Apart from its ‘no’ vote on the UN resolution, Fiji has also withdrawn its name from a list of 51 nations calling on China to end its human rights violations against the Uyghur and Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.”
Mr Chaudhry also questioned the stand taken by the National Federation Party (NFP), which strongly criticised Fiji’s vote against the UN Resolution but that it did not affect the party’s support for the Coalition Government or the Prime Minister.
“The NFP must take a principled stand on the issue. It cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds simply because it suits their interest to do so.”
