12 February 2011

Press Statement by the Australian High Commissioner,
HE Frank Ingruber

• The reports which appeared in the Solomon Star newspaper on 12 February about my meeting on 10 February with the Prime Minister, Hon Danny Philip, were a misrepresentation of that meeting.

• While it is diplomatic practice not to reveal details of high-level discussions, the claims that have been made about the meeting and about Australia’s position are not correct.

• Australia’s position is that the accusations against Australia and RAMSI in the so-called ‘intelligence report’ are entirely baseless
- Australia does not seek to interfere in political developments in Solomon Islands and has not done so.
- Those developments are purely a matter for Solomon Islanders.