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Article: FFA questions logic in merging its role with the Forum Sec and SPC - Teo.
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- PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association
- Article date:
- October 27, 2006
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27 OCTOBER 2006 NADI (Pacnews) -- At least one of the heads of the ten regional organisations has expressed his concerns over the proposed regional institutional framework (RIF), now endorsed by Pacific Leaders.
The outgoing director of the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), Feleti Teo said recommendations made in the RIF report were 'disastrous and undermine the milestones achieved by FFA over the last 27 years.'
Mr Teo, who spent six years as head of the Honiara based regional organisation said to 'simply divide up FFA into technical and policy/political functions will not work.'According to the RIF report, FFA's political and policy work will merge ...