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Why ANZ tit-for-tat sanctions for Fiji suck

8:33 November 05th, 2009
Scott MacWilliam on a strategy rethink for Fiji. Photo: ANU

Scott MacWilliam on a strategy rethink for Fiji. Photo: ANU

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Opinion – By Scott MacWilliam in Canberra

The latest development in ANZ-Fiji relations shows clearly why the model of sanctions being imposed on the South Pacific nation-state encourages tit-for-tat, ill-conceived moves by all parties.

While one view is that ANZ governments have been deliberately egging on the Fiji military government to become ever more extreme, this seems a less likely explanation than another possibility.
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