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An independent MP in Western Samoa explains why a court challenge has been brought against Samoa's first universal suffrage elections.

Tonga's Prime Minister, just back from CHOGM talks about future relations with South Africa.

Meanwhile the government of Western Samoa has shrugged off the prospect of a legal challenge to the April general elections.
Samoan government spokesman Tuilaepa Sailele dismisses the proposed court action as insignificant

Tonga's new Prime Minister Baron Vaea was in Auckland earlier this week, on his way home from the Zimbabwe summitt.
Baron Vaea says South Africa obviously dominated the proceedings in terms of the "Gleneagles Agreement."

Pacific news roundup.

The new Fiji National petroleum Company was the subject of many questions at the recent annual Pacific Regional Energy meeting in Wetsern Samoa.
The company, FINAPECO, intends to buy oil from Malaysia, refine it in Singapore and distribute it from Fiji to the Pacific region.
Auckland based Pene Lefale of Greenpeace, who attended the Apia meeting talks about the Fiji proposal and some of the main issues raised.