{"id":884,"date":"2015-09-09T14:04:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T14:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=884"},"modified":"2015-09-12T14:22:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T14:22:05","slug":"fiji-pm-blames-australia-for-forum-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"Fiji PM blames Australia for forum boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/binara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-885\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/binara-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"UN General Assembly Fiji\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/binara-300x186.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/binara-1024x636.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/binara.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Fiji&#8217;s prime minister has blamed Australia&#8217;s inaction on climate change for his decision to boycott the Pacific Islands Forum in Papua New Guinea.Frank Bainimarama instead sent along his Foreign Minister, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, to represent Fiji at the official leaders talks in Port Moresby this week.&#8217;I regret that I am unable to attend myself because of the refusal of Australia and New Zealand to step back and allow the Pacific island nations to determine their own futures free from outside interference,&#8217; he said in a letter to PNG Prime Minister Peter O&#8217;Neill.<\/p>\n<p>Source: AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji&#8217;s prime minister has blamed Australia&#8217;s inaction on climate change for his decision to boycott&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[5,9,6],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/binara.jpg",1200,745,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/binara-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/binara-300x186.jpg",300,186,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/binara.jpg",640,397,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/binara-1024x636.jpg",640,398,true],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/binara.jpg",1200,745,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/binara.jpg",1200,745,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/binara.jpg",1024,636,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/binara.jpg",720,447,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/binara.jpg",480,298,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Uncategorized","tag_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}