UN General Assembly
1992

is the holding of regular elections. Previous representatives of my country who have addressed the Assembly within the last four years adverted to the changes which had taken place and were still taking place in Fiji on the new Constitution that was promulgated in 1990 on the basis of recommendations by an independent multiracial national commission. I take great pleasure in informing this assembly of the world that my Government has committed itself to a review of the 1990 Constitution of Fiji. Preparatory work has already begun with regard to the mechanism and procedures for implementing this review. All communities in Fiji will be consulted fully in the review process. It will also involve the representatives of the people in Parliament and all the political parties. As of December 1988 indigenous Fijians numbered about 345,000 out of a total population of 720,000. Fiji is their indigenous homeland. In fact, the Fijians, through their mataqalis land-owning units own 83 per cent of all the land in Fiji. We have a distinct culture and identity which we must, of