Fiji's Minister for Women, Dr Jiko Luveni, addressed the UNIDO General Conference in Lima, Peru today. Speaking in Fiji's capacity as the Chair of the Group of 77 and China, Minister Luveni's statement followed on directly after the speeches given by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President Ollanto Humala of Peru.

Fiji’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Peter Thomson, has urged the global community to recognise that inclusive and sustained economic growth is absolutely necessary for the imperative of poverty eradication.

The Government of Burkina Faso and the Republic of Fiji formalised diplomatic relations at a ceremony at the Fiji Mission to the United Nations in New York on 22 November 2013. The Permanent Representative of Burkina Faso to the United Nations, Ambassador Der Kogda and his Fijian counterpart, Ambassador Peter Thomson, signed the joint communiqué establishing diplomatic relations between the two States.