Her comment follows a report Gerald McGhie, a former diplomat who chairs Transparency International, has called on New Zealand to reopen diplomatic channels with the Fiji interim government.
He said that if the United States could talk to North Korea, New Zealand should be able to re-establish relations with its Pacific neighbour, Radio New Zealand International said.
But the Prime Minister said diplomatic channels had not been closed off.
"We have a high commissioner in Fiji and the High Commission engages in Fiji as you would expect it to," she said.
"It's particularly active in the joint working group between the Pacific Islands Forum nations and the Fiji interim government to try and get them to focus on the need to finalise a timetable for holding elections at the end of March," she said.
Fiji coup leader Commodore Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama expelled New Zealand high commissioner Michael Green a year ago after accusing the diplomat of interfering in the country's domestic affairs.
New Zealand imposed targeted sanctions against Fiji following the coup in 2006 which ban travel here by members of the interim regime. After Mr Green's explusion, the sanctions were widened to cover transit visas so regime members were not able to travel through New Zealand en route to another country.
