“While the Constitution guarantees press freedom, it must be used with sensitivity, respect and good judgement in a multi-cultural and multi-religious country such as ours, he said.”

— Laisenia Qarase

Pacific Magazine http://www.pacificmagazine.net
Reaction to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, 7 February 2006

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