The European Union has told the Fiji regime that it must meet the spirit of its constitution if it wants full development assistance to resume after next year's election.
The EU has had limited links with Fiji since the military coup in 2006 but after the release of a new constitution and commitments to elections it has begun rebuilding contacts.
Last week, a senior official visited to discuss re-activating the full aid programme and this week a director of EU's External Service, Dr Gerhard Sabathil, was in Suva to hold talks on political matters.
He says the EU has told Fiji what conditions need to be fulfilled in the re-establishment of democracy.
"These expectations are the full implementation of the basic values of the constitution, human rights, democracy, rule of law, detailed issues in the field of gender issues, freedom of expression, freedom of media and of course the electoral process which should be a genuine democratic one."
A director of the EU's External Service, Dr Gerhard Sabathil
