15 Jan 2008

Call for Fiji to join Auckland's Pacific trade expo

3:59 pm on 15 January 2008

The New Zealand-Pacific business council is calling for Fiji's participation in this year's Pacific trade expo.

The expo is being held in Auckland in March.

The event's director, Elisabeth Yearbury, says two representatives went to Fiji in December, and met with a positive response.

She says she is in touch with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to get visas for those wishing to come to New Zealand.

"I would like to think that traders are traders and they're not political. If non-political business people do come to New Zealand and they are not politically engaged, then I hope that they will be able to get visas."

Pacific trade expo director, Elisabeth Yearbury,