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	Fiji (09/05)
		Fiji was readmitted to the Commonwealth in October.
		Fiji is one of the most developed of the Pacific island economies, although it remains a developing country with a large subsistence agriculture sector.
		The Government of Fiji reported that growth was driven by a recovery in the tourism industry as well as by improved performance in mining, the harvesting and processing of mahogany, and fresh fish exports.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/1834.htm (3629 words)

	Articles - Constitution of Fiji: Chapter 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Cabinet, whose members must also be members of either the House of Representatives or the Senate, is to be appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister.
		Cabinets, always drawn from the caucus of the governing party, therefore tended to be ethnically lopsided, which aroused resentment among the ethnic groups that were underrepresented.
		Fiji's decision to follow a similar course was another reflection of its faith in British constitutional models: while the standard Westminster cabinet model was rejected as unsuited to local conditions, alternative models rooted in British practice were studied, and one was adopted.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Constitution_of_Fiji:_Chapter_7 (3044 words)

	Cabinet (Fiji) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji has the Westminster system - executive authority is vested nominally in a List of Presidents of FijiPresident, but exercised in practice by a Cabinet of Ministers, presided over by the List of Prime Ministers of FijiPrime Minister.
		Cabinet Ministers are formally appointed by the President, but he is constitutionally required to do so only on the advice of the Prime Minister.
		On 18 July, 2003, Fiji's Supreme Court (Fiji)Supreme Court ruled that the exclusion of the Labour Party was in breach of the Constitution of FijiConstitution, and demanded that the situation be rectified.
	www.infothis.com /find/Cabinet_(Fiji) (968 words)

	Speight's surprise
		In a more politically relevant ruling, the Court of Appeal held that the Fiji Labour Party was entitled to be represented in the Cabinet in proportion to its strength in the House of Representatives, according to the Constitution.
		Fiji was re-admitted into the Commonwealth in December 2001 on the grounds that a democratically elected government was in place.
		Fiji's future can be nothing but grim if its ruling party plans to deprive a substantial section of its population of a say in the country's political functioning.
	www.thehindu.com /fline/fl1905/19050560.htm (1378 words)

	Articles - Cabinet (Fiji) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji has the Westminster system - executive authority is vested nominally in a President, but exercised in practice by a Cabinet of Ministers, presided over by the Prime Minister.
		Then following the election of 2001, Mahendra Chaudhry, the leader of the Fiji Labour Party, was involved in litigation against the Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, on the grounds that Qarase had unconstitutionally refused to include the Labour Party in the Cabinet.
		On 18 July 2003, Fiji's Supreme Court ruled that the exclusion of the Labour Party was in breach of the Constitution, and demanded that the situation be rectified.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Cabinet_(Fiji) (988 words)

	Fiji Cabinet considers total ban on coral and live fish export (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A statement from Cabinet said the sub-committee will consider a total ban and revocation of licences because at the moment, there is no effective form of monitoring the trade of coral and aquarium fish in the country.
		Fiji is one of the few countries that continue to allow it through regulation.
		Fiji is one of 70 countries which export coral and aquarium fish, that will develop and apply practices which companies will have to follow.
	www.spc.org.nc /coastfish/News/LRF/7/LRF7-10.htm (951 words)

	Laisenia Qarase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Qarase was appointed Prime Minister on July 4 2000, after the Fiji coup of 2000coup that led to the removal of Mahendra Chaudhry/ was quashed by the military.
		On 18 July 2003, the Supreme Court of FijiSupreme Court ruled that the exclusion of the Labour Party was in breach of the Constitution, and demanded that the situation be rectified.
		Fiji's prime minister Laisenia Qarase is returning home from a trip to China aimed at strengthening bilateral economic ties.
	www.infothis.com /find/Laisenia_Qarase (948 words)

	Fiji Human Rights
		Fiji is a constitutional republic with an elected President, Prime Minister and Parliament.
		Fiji was invited by the Community of Democracies' (CD) Convening Group to attend the November 2002 second CD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, as an observer.
		After the election, four ethnic Fijian women were appointed to the Cabinet (two as ministers and two as assistant ministers) and another was appointed to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
	www.multied.com /nationbynation/Fiji/Human.html (7609 words)

	CNN.com - ASIANOW - New political crisis unfolds in Fiji - July 19, 2000
		SUVA, Fiji -- As another political crisis unfolded in Fiji, New Zealand expelled 41 Fijian military personnel and imposed sports-related sanctions against the nation in protest against the inclusion of coup supporters in Fiji's proposed Cabinet.
		Speight said he was upset that the Cabinet -- to have 20 ministers and 12 assistant ministers -- did not include enough of his supporters, and that he had not been adequately consulted on its make up.
		Fiji's military leaders said Wednesday they had extended the emergency rule -- imposed 10 days after the crisis began -- until the end of July in response to the rebels' latest threats.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/australasia/07/19/fiji.unrest (979 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji's indigenous government must be reshaped to include ethnic Indian MPs from ousted leader Mahendra Chaudhry's Labour Party, Fiji's Supreme Court has ruled.
		Fiji's 1997 constitution seeks to moderate long-standing racial tensions between indigenous Fijians and ethnic Indians by including power-sharing provisions.
		Qarase last month vowed to stand by the court's ruling but said he did not want a costly election with Fiji's tourism and sugar-based economy still trying to recover from the buffeting it took in the aftermath of the bitter 2000 coup.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,206662-1-9,00.html (506 words)

	CNN reporting about Fiji
		Fiji rebel leader George Speight should be tried for treason and jailed for life, the prime minister he held hostage for 56 days said on Monday.
		Fiji lurched toward another government crisis Wednesday as the swearing in of a new Cabinet was postponed indefinitely, a move coup leader...
		Fiji's military rulers and coup leader George Speight were locked in talks on Sunday, seeking to break an impasse delaying the release of 31 hostages and an end to a...
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/events/cnn_log.htm (3128 words)

	rediff.com: Fiji's interim cabinet to be sworn in today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji's interim cabinet to be sworn in today
		Fiji's new interim cabinet will be sworn in at 11 am at Boron House today, reports fijilive.com.
		The new line-up, announced a short while ago, is almost the same as the one which was to be sworn in last week.
	www.rediff.com /news/2000/jul/28fiji.htm (172 words)

	CNN.com - Swearing in of new Fiji Cabinet postponed, Speight continues threats - July 18, 2000
		SUVA, Fiji (AP) -- Fiji lurched toward another government crisis Wednesday as the swearing in of a new Cabinet was postponed indefinitely, a move coup leader George Speight claimed he orchestrated.
		Speight was dissatisfied with the Cabinet, which he said did not include enough of his supporters, and he objected to not having been adequately consulted in the formulation process, despite a promise from President Ratu Josefa Iloilo that he would be included in negotiations.
		The demise of democracy in Fiji has already prompted Australia and New Zealand to impose sanctions on the country and other nations are expected to follow suit.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/australasia/07/18/fiji.unrest.04.ap (796 words)

	FIJI COULD LEARN FROM NEW CALEDONIA GAINS - July 6, 2005
		For the first four years of this government, Fiji’s highest courts were constantly addressing legal issues concerning the requirement that the Prime Minister invite all parties with over 10 percent of seats into his cabinet.
		In Fiji, the new constitution required the Prime Minister to invite all parties with over 10 percent of the seats in parliament to participate in cabinet.
		Fiji’s provisions reflect the way they were introduced as an afterthought once the fundamental provisions of the 1997 constitution were already in place.
	archives.pireport.org /archive/2005/July/07-06-com.htm (1963 words)

	Women's Response to Fiji Cabinet Line Up - WAPAD
		The National Council of Women Fiji (NCWF) has responded to the announcement of the Interim Cabinet in a letter to the Interim Head of State, Commander Ratu Voreqe Bainimarama, voicing concern at the lack of gender and racial equality in the composition of the Interim Civilian Cabinet:
		It was widely acknowledged that this criteria would assure a positive affirmation of the work of women's non government organisations (NGOs) in the development of Fiji, through a range of major initiatives and practical actions to improve the status of women.
		Finally, we would like to reiterate our earlier commitment that you, and your advisors, remain in our prayers during these trying and very difficult times, as you persevere to reach a peaceful, lawful and socially just resolution, including the safe release of all hostages, the respect of human rights and the return to parliamentary democracy.
	www.converge.org.nz /pma/wapadcou.htm (616 words)

	Response to the President’s address in Parliament by Labour Parliamentary Leader Mahendra P. Chaudhry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Acceptance of this would mean that Fiji's cabinet would constitute a ridiculous 51% of the entire House of Representatives.
		Speaker this is a very significant concession on the part of the non-indigenous communities in Fiji and it was given only after we were given assurances that all ethnic groups will be included in the governance of our nation under a power sharing arrangement, within an agreed threshold.
		Sir, the Labour Party has always advocated a Fiji that is peaceful and prosperous, a just and fair society where all will be happy and contented, where no one feels victimized on account of his or her ethnicity.
	www.flp.org.fj /n040806.htm (3457 words)

	Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji, endowed with forest, mineral, and fish resources, is one of the most developed of the Pacific island economies, though still with a large subsistence sector.
		Fiji Times, Fiji -:...was the one of the conclusions of a recent poll by Tebbutt Research which surveyed over 1011 individuals aged between 18 and 45 plus in Fiji's main centres...
		FIJI secondary schools rugby officials have called on teachers from the various schools to be vigilant at the seven-a-side finals at the National Stadium.
	www.world-news-watch.com /world/062004/Fiji.html (12909 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Fiji's cabinet approves changes to currency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji's cabinet has approved the changes to the country's currency, including the introduction of a one hundred dollar bill, and the removal of one and two cent pieces from circulation.
		The new one hundred dollar bank note will be primarily yellow in colour, and will bear an image of Queen Elizabeth II as well as other themes relevant to the country's culture and heritage.
		Other changes to Fiji's currency will include the upgrading of security features, as well as updates in design and banknote size.
	www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/stories/s1439968.htm (228 words)

	Workers Online : News : 2000 - Issue 54 : STOP PRESS: AK-47s used in coup against union-aligned Fiji Labour Government
		Fiji's trade union movement has played an important role in the struggle for democracy in that country.
		The union-aligned Labour Prime Minister of Fiji, Mahendra Chaudry, and members of his Cabinet are being held in Parliament House by armed men with AK-47s.
		The Indian community, brought to Fiji by British colonialists mainly as indentured labourers for sugar plantations, now form nearly half the population of this island nation.
	workers.labor.net.au /54/news93_fiji.html (1002 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Fiji cabinet ruled 'illegal'
		Fiji's Supreme Court has ruled the nationalist government of Laisenia Qarase must include members of the Indian-dominated opposition.
		In a 60-page judgement, the Supreme Court in the Fijian capital, Suva, decided Mr Qarase's exclusion from cabinet of his political rivals was unconstitutional.
		The Fiji Labour Party, for example, is entitled to almost 40% of seats.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3076391.stm (360 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Fiji minister regains place in cabinet after being cleared of fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The only Indian member of the Fiji cabinet has regained his position, a week after a court cleared him of fraud-related charges.
		Our reporter in Fiji, Samisoni Pareti, says Mr Raj was asked by Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase to resign late last year after police charged him with fraud-related offences.
		He was alleged to have cashed his business class airfares to travel economy class to India, using the money to pay for his wife and a Hindu priest to accompany him.
	www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/stories/s1459394.htm (273 words)

	Fiji Cabinet Member Stumbles Over Immigrant Problem - Indians Are Like Weeds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Fiji cabinet minister who likened ethnic Indians to "weeds taking up space" this week came under fierce attack from politicians, Fiji's ethnic Indian community and women's groups.
		Race relations are tense among Fiji's 830,000 people, 51 percent of whom are indigenous Polynesian or Melanesian, while 44 percent are ethnic Indian.
		Fiji Women's Crisis center's Edwina Kotoisuva said Caucau's statement was an embarrassment to all Christians because her comments about Indians and her Christian God "were made in the same breath."
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/727314/posts (974 words)

	Fijilive - Gateway to Fiji, Fiji news, Fiji shopping, Fijian music, Fijian news, Fiji edirectory, Fiji Real estate, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The gay community in Fiji says it is not trying to change laws on marriage because the country is not ready for gay marriages...
		Two women prisoners are on the run after they escaped on the pretext of relieving themselves while being transferred from their prison last Thursday...
		Fiji may import Indian technologies: PM Indian investors eye Fiji
	www.fijilive.com (263 words)

	FIJI: Flawed election formalises coup
		The composition of Fiji's new cabinet represents a reconciliation between the two main political representatives of the Melanesian-Fijian chauvinist movement.
		Qarase was appointed Fiji's “interim” prime minister by the Fiji military after it declared martial law on May 29.
		The goal of the attackers was to topple the commander of the Fiji military forces, Commodore Frank Bainimarama — the power behind Qarase's throne — and replace him with someone sympathetic to Speight's followers.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2001/464/464p22.htm (1231 words)

	Fiji Government Online
		Initial damage assessment training to be held in Kadavu
		12/10/2005 - Cabinet endorses principles for National Position on Pacific Plan
		H.E. the President at the Opening of the Fiji Day Parade
	www.fiji.gov.fj (103 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Three ministers dropped in Fiji's new cabinet line up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji announces appointment of new vice president > [15/12/2004]
		In Fiji, three cabinet ministers have been dropped in a long-awaited government reshuffle announced by Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase.
		As our correspondent Samesoni Pareti reports, the changes also saw the promotion to cabinet positions of three backbenchers, including a woman who won a by-election last week.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/news/stories/s1267229.htm (273 words)

	Scoop: Fiji sanctions following Commonwealth decision
		The group has determined that the progress Fiji has made towards returning to constitutional democracy should be recognised.
		“However there are still a concern regarding the constitutionality of Fiji’s Cabinet which the Commonwealth decision acknowledges by placing conditions on the lifting of the suspension.
		“Fiji will remain under Commonwealth scrutiny until the constitutional issue has been properly resolved when the matter goes before the Fiji Court of Appeal in February 2002.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PA0112/S00431.htm (588 words)

	FIJI CABINET MINISTERS CRITICIZED FOR LAND DEAL - November 23, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		SUVA, Fiji (Fiji 1 News, Nov. 22) - Two Fiji cabinet ministers were asked to resign after they were alleged to have deceived a landowning unit in Naitasiri over the sale of more than 100 acres of freehold land.
		Both the Lands Minister, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, and Health Minister, Solomoni Naivalu, were cited for depriving the "Mataqali" (primary local division of Fijian society) Lokia of land that rightfully belonged to them.
		Bune said the 60 families in the village live in an area which is constantly flooded and have lost faith in a Government that should have supported them with its Affirmative Action Program.
	pidp.eastwestcenter.org /pireport/2004/November/11-23-18.htm (401 words)

	FOUR SWORN IN AS NEW MEMBERS OF FIJI CABINET - December 21, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While the four MPs are keen to begin in their respective ministries, they will be briefed by the Prime Minister on the policies of government and what is demanded of them by the nation.
		With a little over a year to prove themselves in government, all four today expressed confidence in their ability to inject a fresh perspective in the cabinet.
		Eighteen months from the general elections in 2006, and the new members of cabinet have an immense task and challenge ahead of them.
	pidp.eastwestcenter.org /pireport/2004/December/12-21-03.htm (206 words)

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