Bainimarama responds to Samoan PM's criticisms

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Updated February 26, 2009 17:02:20

For the first time in memory, the debate over the return to democracy has opened up a split in the Pacific with leaders openly critisicing each other with accusations of lying and of being "unpacific". Fiji interim prime minister Frank Bainimarama has issued a statement responding to criticism of him by Samoa's prime minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi.

presenter: Geraldine Coutts
Speakers: Pacific correspondent Campbell Cooney

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