The Forum/Fiji Working Group on the Situation in Fiji continues to suggest that elections can be held in Fiji within four months.
In a press statement, the group makes no mention that the Fiji interim government has repeatedly ruled out holding elections in 2009.
The statement of the group, which is a Pacific Islands Forum body aiming to steer Fiji back to democracy following its 2006 military coup, was issued at the end of its 34th meeting in just over a year.
The Group was told by two independent interlocutors to Fiji's political leaders' dialogue about progress towards a Fiji meeting now expected later this month.
The Forum Group has also confirmed that the Forum's Ministerial Contact Group will visit Fiji on December the 10th to the 12th.
The New Zealand foreign minister, Murray McCully, who is part of the Contact Group, has declined to comment on next week's Fiji mission as Fiji refuses to hold elections.
After the last Contact Group encounter, the ministers said elections could go ahead if there was a political will in Fiji.
Next month an emergency Forum summit is to be held in Papua New Guinea, with Fiji facing a threat of suspension from the body unless it meets its commitments to hold elections by March.
