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News Statement
By
Hon. Fred Mitchell
Minister of Foreign Affairs & The Public Service
For
Immediate Release
Mitchell
Responds to FNM Attack
London – It
is clear that the FNM attack on me and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
is ill-conceived and misdirected; a cowardly political act by an ever
more desperate Opposition, clutching at straws.
Having now
examined preliminarily the so-called “evidence” provided by the FNM
spokesman, the explanations are all entirely innocent and consistent
with the routine work of a Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The FNM
statement was issued just upon my departure for Malta, traveling on the
business of the Bahamian people. They
obviously gambled that I would not have the opportunity to properly
respond to it. I will deal
with the matter fully upon my return to The Bahamas.
In the
meantime, as I have said before, this is a matter for the Police.
Since the FNM is reluctant to share their allegations with the
Police despite my repeated invitation to do so on three separate
occasions, I will invite forthwith the Commissioner of Police to
determine the quality of their “evidence” and to determine also how
stolen documents of the Ministry came to be in their possession.
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21st November, 2005
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