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NEWS.com.au - Australia
28 December 2006
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Downer blasts Solomons over po
THE Solomon Islands' move to bar the country's Australian police chief from returning highlights the Pacific nation's "appalling" governance, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.
In some of his strongest language yet on the matter, Mr Downer tonight blasted the Solomons Government after it moved to block police chief Shane Castles from returning to the troubled archipelago.
“It gets to the very heart of what's wrong with the Solomon Islands,” he said in an interview with Australia Network radio.
“The reason the country has been in a state of crisis is because of appalling levels of governance, and this is a further illustration of it.”
Mr Castles, who is in Australia on leave, has been helping to restore law and order to the Solomons, along with members of the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI).
The decision to bar Mr Castles follows a diplomatic row between Australia and the Solomon Islands over the Julian Moti affair.
Moti, an Australian lawyer appointed but later suspended as the Solomon Islands attorney-general, is wanted by the Australian Federal Police for alleged child sex offences dismissed by a court in Vanuatu in 1997.
Mr Castles was present in October when police raided the office of Solomons Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, as officers sought evidence relating to Moti's escape from Papua New Guinea and his illegal entry into the Solomons.
Mr Downer tonight accused the Solomons government of behaving disgracefully over the Moti affair.
“All the Solomon Islands police have been trying to do is uphold the law, all the government has been trying to do is to circumvent the law,” he said.
“They know this man is wanted to face charges here in Australia, these are very serious charges ... but they have done everything they possibly can to try to obstruct his return.
“They may have their own reasons for passionately wanting that particular Australian to stay in the Solomon Islands as distinct from Shane Castles, who is a man of true integrity and decency.”
Politicians in the Solomon Islands had been “plundering the public purse” for years, Mr Downer said.
“The level of governance has progressively been declining,” he said.
“RAMSI has led to a substantial improvement in the living standards of the ordinary people but, of course, it has reduced the opportunities for some of the political leadership to get up to the sort of practice they were involved in in the past.
”No wonder they want to get rid of the police commissioner, who's one of the people responsible for upholding the rule of law.”
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