Tagata o te Moana. 2012-04-07. 17:30-18:00.

News from the Pacific presented by Don Wiseman, Radio New Zealand International. Programme content provided by broadcaster.

In this weeks programme:
Papua New Guinea's government accused of deceiving the people by putting the June elections back six months; Fiji's efforts to clean up after what the Red Cross says are the worst floods there ever; More political reform on the cards in Tonga; and French Polynesia's Oscar Temaru gets a rap on the knuckles for an attack on Nicholas Sarkozy; The permanent secretary of Foreign Affairs in Tuvalu says as a sovereign state Tuvalu has the right to enter into diplomatic relations with any country it chooses, including those that might be involved in conflict; The United Nations Special Rapporteur on toxic waste says the communities affected by the nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands feel like nomads in their own country; New Zealand has not yet been approached by the Fiji interim government despite an offer last year to exempt some civilian appointments from the travel sanctions on the regime.