“Now is not the time to be simply paying lip-service, it is time to stand up and be counted, to stand together and not to be swayed or moved from our path towards true unity, and the peace and security that we aspire to achieve.”

— Epeli Ganilau

Excerpts from a speech to the Fiji Institute of Accountants, 28 April 2005

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