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Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully will put renewed pressure on Fiji and its military ruler Frank Bainimarama to return the country to democracy.
Mr McCully is in Fiji today as part of a Pacific Islands Forum group assessing what progress, if any, Fiji has made since the 2006 coup.
The forum threatened Fiji with suspension if it failed to hold elections by the end of March next year, but Commodore Bainimarama has already said it will not meet this deadline.
Mr McCully is with a group of Foreign Ministers from Australia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga and Tuvalu who will report back to the forum's leaders' meeting in PNG next month.
Mr McCully said he wanted to see some "positive movement", with suspension from the forum an option otherwise.
"I know some leaders will see [suspension] as a difficult choice, but we are getting down to the end of a process where there aren't many choices left."
Suspension would be an unprecedented move, cutting Fiji off from engaging with its neighbours.
Mr McCully said there would be both a formal group discussion with Commodore Bainimarama and a social meeting.
He has already met his PNG counterpart Sam Abal and he said he was hopeful that the country's leader, Sir Michael Somare, could play a constructive role in bringing Fiji back to democracy.
