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Australia has been accused of trying to sabotage Fiji's economy by undermining the Pacific island country's loan arrangements with world lenders.
Fiji's interim finance minister Mahendra Chaudhry, a former prime minister, also said Australia and New Zealand were trying to harm his country through "unjustified travel warnings".
"Australia has also tried to undermine Fiji's economy through multilateral institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank," Chaudhry told Fiji's Legend FM radio.
"It is effectively blocking our systems of loan arrangements through these banks to Fiji.
"Now my advice to them is to stop this, because if they want the democratic processes here to proceed judiciously then they must co-operate and do their bit," he said.
Fiji's government has come under attack from countries including Australia and New Zealand since the military seized power in a coup last December.
Chaudhry said Australia and New Zealand would have only themselves to blame if a return to democracy was delayed because of their tactics.
"We are monitoring through the Finance Ministry the tactics of the Australians, particularly with regards to the measures they are taking," he said.
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer could not immediately be reached for comment, his spokesman said.
A spokesman for New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters rejected Chaudhry's claims.
"Our sanctions have been carefully targeted only at the coup perpetrators. We are continuing our aid programmes to help Fiji's poor," he said.
- AAP
