 Bune clarified that his meeting with the Commander had not been as a representative of the FLP.The Fiji Times printed a statement from Commodore Bainimarama on 16 January, the same morning that he was meeting the Prime Minister with Acting President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi as mediator, insisting that there was nothing political about his antigovernment pronouncements.He had never commented except when he believed that government policies were undermining national security, he claimed.