Helen Clark has cautioned Frank Bainimarama to heed the lesson of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe as the Pacific Islands Forum meets to decide his fate. The leaders at the forum in Niue will consider today whether to support a report on Fiji by Pacific foreign ministers - and Commodore Bainimarama has sent strong signals he will pull out of the forum if it is adopted, particularly its insistence that elections are possible by March. After talking to several other leaders at the forum yesterday, Helen Clark said she doubted the forum would respond to Commodore Bainimarama's threat of withdrawal by watering down its response to his backdown on previous promises to hold the election by March. She likened the situation to the Mugabe regime. "Eventually as the Commonwealth stuck to its guns and charter and the Harare Declaration, Mr...
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