Embassy of China

Senior staff of the MSG Secretariat led by the Acting Director General, George Hoa’au, had discussions over lunch at the MK Restaurant hosted by the PRC Embassy Wednesday.

Counsellor of the PRC in Vanuatu, Counsellor Lin Bin, was informally briefed on membership issues and the existing processes of the convening of the biennium Leader’s Summit, the Foreign Ministers Meeting (FMM) and the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM).

Under new measures to contain the Wuhan coronavirus, the Fiji government has banned non-citizens who have been in mainland China in the past 14 days from entering.

However, in a statement, the Chinese embassy said Beijing had taken rigourous containment measures, and there was no need for measures that interfered with travel and trade.

It hoped the Fiji government would minimise the negative impact on the movement of people as much as possible.