New Zealand's expelled Acting High Commissioner to Fiji will tell her story personally to Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully early in the week as the diplomatic stoush continues.
Caroline McDonald arrives back in Auckland this afternoon after she was declared persona non grata by Fiji's self proclaimed leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama.
She was accused of acting inappropriately and not engaging with the Fiji administration.
Cdre Bainimarama ordered the expulsion because the New Zealand Government refused his ultimatum to grant a visa to a student who is the son of a senior official in Suva.
Fiji's interim High Commissioner in Wellington, Cama Tuiloma, was in turn ordered to leave this country.
Mr McCully told NZPA he would not meet Ms McDonald this afternoon but within the next day or two. They had spoken on the phone before she left Fiji.
Along with Ms McDonald, the NZ High Commission had lost her husband Simon Mark, who is the trade commissioner, as well as police and defence attaches. That left just a handful of staff in the commission in Fiji under the Acting Deputy High Commissioner Todd Cleaver.
source:nzpa
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