“Our Fiji today is a new Fiji where individual freedom is protected and not a Fiji solely for Fijians. Wise decisions from this august house will promote multiracial harmony and true friendship.”

—  Frank Bainimarama

2000, Excerpts from an address to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs, 28 July 2005

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