As a new report into the illegal issuing of Vanuatu passports is sitting before government ministers, the charges d'affaires of the consulate in China denies any wrongdoing.
Willie Toama says he has never issued any passports from the consulate in Beijing.
He says the documents are only issued from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Port Vila.
The former ambassador to China, Willie Jimmy, who is now the MP for Port Vila, also denied he issued any passports while in China, but says since he has left, the embassy has approved permanent residence visas.
In 2011, a critical auditor's report into allegations of mismanagement and corrupt practices at the embassy called for major changes, but the government never responded.
Mr Toama says he won't be implicated in the new report.
"Since I started being employed in the embassy as a diplomat we never issued any passport in the embassy. The power was not delegated to us. It was only the ministry of foreign affairs and the ministry of our immigration."
Willie Toama.
