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Pacific forum calls for Fiji poll

20 mars 2007, 00:00

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Foreign ministers from the 16-member Pacific Islands Forum have called on Fiji?s military regime to return the nation to democracy within 18 months.

At a meeting in Vanuatu, the ministers described last December?s military coup as ?unconstitutional and unacceptable?. Deposed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has said he is being investigated for treason, accused of seeking foreign help to prevent the army taking power.

Fiji?s new military leader says that elections will not be held until 2010. The organisation sent senior officials to Fiji to examine the deep-seated political issues that led to last December?s military takeover.

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