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	Great Council of Chiefs (Fiji) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Council of Chiefs (Bose Levu Vakaturaga in Fijian) is a constitutional body in the Republic of the Fiji Islands.
		The Great Council of Chiefs is established under Section 116 of the 1997 Constitution, but it actually predates the Constitution by many years, having been established by the British colonial rulers as an advisory body in 1876, two years after the United Kingdom had annexed Fiji.
		In June 2004, the Great Council of Chiefs was plunged into crisis when the government decided not to reappoint Ratu Epeli Ganilau as one of its six representatives on the Great Council; the Cakaudrove Provincial Council did not give him one of their three seats either.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Council_of_Chiefs_(Fiji) (1003 words)

	Constitution of Fiji: Chapter 8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This chapter, the shortest in the Fijian Constitution, stipulates that the Great Council of Chiefs, or Bose Levu Vakaturaga in Fijian, originally established under the Fijian Affairs Act, continues in existence, and that its membership, functions, operations, and procedures are as prescribed by that act.
		The Great Council of Chiefs is a very old body, which has its roots in the chiefly councils established by Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau in the 1800s.
		With increased political representation being granted to Indo-Fijians, the chiefs felt they needed the security of having the Great Council enshrined in the constitution, and not merely in a legal document that could be amended at the whim of politicians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constitution_of_Fiji:_Chapter_8 (310 words)

	ipedia.com: Fiji Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji's Head of State is the President, who is elected by the Great Council of Chiefs for a five-year term.
		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.
		The population of Fiji is divided almost equally between native Fijians, a people of mixed Polynesian and Melanesian ancestory (51%), and Indo-Fijians (43.7%), descendent of Indian contract laborers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century.
	www.ipedia.com /fiji.html (1457 words)

	CNN.com - Backgrounder: Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs - March 1, 2001
		Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs consists of 49 traditional chiefly rulers and is the highest institution in the indigenous Fijian hierarchy.
		But when the Council approved the establishment of a 12-member constitutional commission last August to frame a new constitution, it effectively withdrew its endorsement of the 1997 constitution.
		Earlier this year, Navosa high chief Adi Kuini Speed, who was deputy prime minister and minister for Fijian affairs in the Chaudhry administration, said the Great Council now had "only a few high chiefs" and was an institution that had lost all the credibility it once had.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/01/fiji.greatcouncil (415 words)

	Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Republic of the Fiji Islands occupies an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of Tuvalu.
		The upper chamber of the parliament, the Senate, has 32 members, formally appointed by the President on the nomination of the Great Council of Chiefs (14), the Prime Minister (9), the Leader of the Opposition (8), and the Council of Rotuma (1).
		The population of Fiji is divided almost equally between native Fijians, a people of mixed Polynesian and Melanesian ancestory (54.3%), and Indo-Fijians (38.1%), descendants of Indian contract laborers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/F/Fiji.htm (1882 words)

	Encyclopedia: Great Council of Chiefs
		The Great Council of Chiefs is established under Section 116 of the 1997 Constitution, but it actually predates the Constitution by many years, having been established by the British colonial rulers as an advisory body when Fiji was a British colony.
		In June 2004, the Great Council of Chiefs was plunged into crisis when the Cakaudrove Provincial Council decided not to return Ratu Epeli Ganilau as one of its representatives on the Great Council.
		This decision had the effect of prematurely ending Ganilau's term as Chairman of the Council, as its regulations require the Chairman to be a member.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Great-Council-of-Chiefs (664 words)

	List of Chairmen of the Great Council of Chiefs (Fiji) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Council of Chiefs (Bose Levu Vakaturaga in Fijian) is a formal assembly of Fiji's senior hereditary chiefs, along with some representatives of the national government and provincial councils, who may or may not be hereditary chiefs themselves.
		Following the adoption of the ministerial system of government in 1967, the Minister for Fijian Affairs (the Cabinet Minister responsible for indigenous cultural and economic development) presided over the Great Council of Chiefs.
		This arrangement continued until the constitutional changes of 1999, when the Great Council chose its own Chairman for the first time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Chairmen_of_the_Great_Council_of_Chiefs_(Fiji) (274 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs said on Tuesday it had re-appointed Ratu Josefa Iloilo as president to steer the racially split South Pacific nation out of its post-coup political crisis.
		Fiji was left in political limbo when a court ruled on March 1 that the post-coup, military-backed interim administration of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase was illegal.
		Fiji media have speculated widely over the past two days that Tupeni Baba, the former deputy to ousted prime minister Chaudhry, would be named to lead a government of national unity in the island nation of some 800,000 people.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,32717-1-9,00.html (364 words)

	Talk:Fiji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		No, there have been no serious attempts to restore the monarchy, although some members of the Great Council of Chiefs suggested the idea when the Constitution was revised in 1996-1997.
		It is curious that even though it was extremist Fijian nationalists that proclaimed the republic, support for restoring the monarchy has come almost entirely from the Great Council of Chiefs, which 'still' recognizes Queen Elizabeth II as its Paramount Chief, but subordinate to the country's republican institutions, a position that she has apparently not repudiated.
		Although some members of the Great Council of Chiefs wanted to restore the monarchy, the majority recognized that too much water had flowed under the bridge, and that there would be little point in going back.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Fiji (817 words)

	CNN.com - Fiji chiefs drop Rabuka as chairman - March 7, 2001
		The council, the highest indigenous Fijian institution in the country, is meeting in Suva Thursday and Friday to formulate a response to last week's Court of Appeal ruling.
		The new council chairman is the son-in-law of former president Ratu Kamisese Mara, who stepped aside from the presidency in late May, allowing Army commander Frank Bainimarama to take control of the country and crush the attempted coup.
		Fiji was thrown into crisis when nationalist rebels stormed parliament on May 19 in the name of indigenous rights, sparking widespread violence against the minority Indo-Fijians who make up 44 percent of the 800,000 population and who dominate business.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/07/fiji.rabuka (389 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Fiji chiefs move to end coup
		Fiji's influential Great Council of Chiefs has reached a breakthrough in efforts to end the hostage crisis, according to reports from the Pacific nation.
		Fiji Radio said the chiefs had decided not to back the armed uprising by George Speight, who is holding the prime minister and several other politicians in the parliament building.
		The chiefs are expected to seek approval for the deal from Mr Speight on Thursday.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_762000/762280.stm (542 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs has opted to respect the rule of law despite a determined attempt to advise the president to ignore the Appeal Court ruling and abrogate the 1997 constitution.
		The Fiji Times quotes the chairman of the Council, Ratu Epeli Ganilau, as saying that the chiefs were unanimous in their support for whatever path the president chooses to take Fiji forward.
		The chiefs have agreed that the 1997 constitution remains the supreme law of the land in line with the Appeal Court ruling.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,32792-1-9,00.html (274 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs defers action on vice president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs has decided to take no action on the position left vacant by jailed Fijian vice-president, Ratu Jope Seniloli.
		The chiefs' meeting had been called to discuss whether Ratu Jope should be replaced on the grounds that he is unable to perform the function of his office while in jail.
		The council is the appointing authority for the president and the vice president.
	www.abc.net.au /asiapacific/news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_1195793.htm (197 words)

	Fijian chiefs split over political crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The chiefs receive 22.5 percent of all rent on leases from native lands, which cover 87 percent of Fiji.
		The 1997 Constitution, which entrenched racially-based elections and the role of the unelected Great Council of Chiefs, was already heavily biased towards ethnic Fijians.
		The Murdoch-owned Fiji Times warned in an editorial: “At a time when the nation needs a united council with a common resolve to take the country forward, it is instead confronted with a chiefly body splintered by dispute.” As a consequence, “the nation is adrift in uncharted waters”.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/mar2001/fiji-m13.shtml (1463 words)

	Chiefs defy Constitution; appoint President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs defied the 1997 Constitution and decided to appoint a President without consulting the Prime Minister.
		The Fiji Court of Appeal had decided this month that the 1997 Constitution remains the supreme law of the country.
		According to the 1997 Constitution The Great Council of Chiefs appoints the President but after consultation with the Prime Minister (c90).
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/hot_press/no578.htm (124 words)

	Asia Times: Fiji takes first step on long road back to democracy
		Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs has appointed Ratu Josefa Iloilo as president in a bid to steer the racially divided South Pacific nation out of its post-coup political turmoil.
		Fiji has been wracked by political crisis since a May 19 coup led by George Speight, the self-styled champion of Fijian interests once described as a political lightweight, and his nationalist supporters.
		Sitiveni Rabuka, the chairman of Fiji's influential decision making-body, the highest institution of indigenous Fijians, the Great Council of Chiefs, claimed at the time that sanctions against his country were aimed at the wrong target.
	www.atimes.com /oceania/CC15Ah02.html (936 words)

	The Hindu : Fiji chiefs back Mara
		Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs today supported the President in his standoff with the self-styled leader of the ``civil coup''.
		Although no final decision was announced by the Great Council of Chiefs, which met near the capital, Suva, today, it became clear that the Prime Minister, Mr.
		Speight, who called once again for a political order that ``enshrines indigenous supremacy'' in Fiji, the businessman- turned-rebel said he would be willing to ``depart'' from the scene, if the tribal chiefs were to ask him to do so and if such a demand were acceptable to the people behind him.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2000/05/24/stories/01240006.htm (415 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Fiji hostage crisis ends
		Coup leaders in Fiji today released their remaining 18 captives, ending a two-month-old parliamentary hostage crisis that has spawned increasing unrest, including the seizure of at least four tourist resorts.
		It was unclear if the takeovers were part of Mr Speight's efforts to put pressure on the Great Council of Chiefs, Fiji's traditional power, to endorse his proposed cabinet for an interim government or if his campaign was spiralling out of control.
		The chiefs began meeting this morning to choose a new president and vice president in line with the agreement signed on Sunday and in the hope of freeing the 18 remaining hostages in parliament.
	www.guardian.co.uk /fiji/article/0,2763,342859,00.html (527 words)

	Fiji Islands - Facts, South Pacific Internet Travel Specialists, (pacificnavigator.com) Fiji Islands, Tonga, Cook ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Known as the hub of the South Pacific, the Fiji Islands are located between latitude 15 and 22 degrees south and longitude 177 west to 175 east.
		Fiji is one of the few places on earth where the 180 degree meridian (the line that separates yesterday from today) cuts across parts of dry land - passing through the tip of Vanua Levu (Udu Point) and the islands of Rabi and Taveuni.
		Fiji is a multi-racial country - rich in culture and diversity.
	www.pacificnavigator.com /fiji/aboutfiji/abt_fiji.html (710 words)

	Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji's Head of State is the List of Presidents of FijiPresident, who is elected by the ''Great Council of Chiefs (Fiji)Great Council of Chiefs'' for a five-year term.
		The upper chamber of the parliament, the Senate (Fiji)Senate, has 32 members, formally appointed by the President on the nomination of the Great Council of Chiefs (14), the Prime Minister (9), the Leader of the Opposition (Fiji)Leader of the Opposition (8), and the Rotuman Islands Council/ (1).
		The population of Fiji is divided almost equally between native Fijian peopleFijians, a people of mixed Polynesian and Melanesian ancestory (51%), and Indo-Fijians (43.7%), descendent of IndiaIndian contract laborers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century.
	www.infothis.com /find/Fiji (1935 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Fiji army commander to address Council of Chiefs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji's military commander, Frank Bainimarama, will address the Great Council of Chiefs later in the day on the controversial Reconciliation, Tolerance and Unity Bill.
		The Council of Chiefs will also hear submissions on the bill by the government, the Methodist Church, and civil society groups opposed to the bill.
		Fiji's army says provisions in the bill providing a possible amnesty for perpetrators of the coup will encourage future attempts to overthrow the government.
	www.abc.gov.au /ra/news/stories/s1424453.htm (236 words)

	Fiji Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji’s Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, and the military commander, Commodore Frank Bainmarama, are reported to have resolved some of their differences which have been simmering for several weeks.
		Fiji’s Indo-Fijians and their organisations are reported to be preparing to offer their support to the Great Council of Chiefs when it meets later this year.
		The Fiji Government Delegation of six led by Fiji’s Ambassador to the European Union, Isikeli Mataitoga, presented the Fiji Government Report and a Supplementary Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva on Tuesday 11th March.
	www.antenna.nl /ecsiep/conflict/fiji/16-4-03.html (7669 words)

	CNN.com - Chiefs name Iloilo Fiji's president - March 13, 2001
		The council, the highest institution of indigenous Fijians in Fiji, has the right to choose the president and vice-president.
		Council chairman Ratu Epeli Ganilau said Tuesday Iloilo and his deputy Ratu Jope Seniloli had been re-appointed unopposed.
		Chaudhry, Fiji's first Indo-Fijian prime minister, himself recommended to Iloilo last week that fresh elections should be called so that the administration elected in May 1999 could seek a fresh mandate.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/12/fiji.chiefs/index.html (448 words)

	CNN.com - Fiji calm after court decision - March 1, 2001
		SUVA, Fiji -- Despite fears of a new outbreak of racial violence all appears calm in Fiji following a court decision ruling the current government is illegal.
		The fate of Fiji's 800,000 people, 44 percent of whom are of Indian descent, now rests in the hands of President Ratu Josefa Iloilo, an elderly and fragile statesman.
		Iloilo said he would consult the Great Council of Chiefs, Fiji's traditional indigenous rulers, on March 8.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/01/fiji.calm (680 words)

	Ratu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They are descendants of Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the Tui Bau (Paramount Chief of Bau, on the eastern side of Viti Levu, Fiji's most populous island), who was the first chief to unite the entire country under his authority in 1871, when he was proclaimed Tui Viti (King of Fiji).
		They established what was to become the Great Council of Chiefs, originally an advisory body, but which grew into a powerful constitutional institution.
		In times of crisis, such as the coups of 1987 and the third coup of 2000, the Great Council of Chiefs has often stepped in to provide leadership when the modern political institutions have broken down.
	mywiseowl.com /articles/Ratu (528 words)

	East Asia Today \| BBC World Service
		To the astonishment of observers, the influential Great Council of Chiefs, caved in to the coup leader, George Speight.
		The Head of the Council of Chiefs, himself a previous coup leader, Siteveni Rambuka, gave this justification for the move.
		We had days one, two and three of the Great Council of Chiefs meeting up until today, and today their amazing caving in allowing George Speight's demands to be met including an interim government.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/asiapacific/eastasiatoday/indepth/20000526.shtml (422 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Fiji chiefs agree no one is above the law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Fiji Great Council of Chiefs has warned that all Fijians are equal before the law.
		The Council's annual meeting this week heard the chiefly system is slowly being eroded by new social and cultural pressures.
		He says the Council will respect the outcome of imminent coup-related court cases, including that of high chief and Vice President, Ratu Jope Seniloli.
	www.goasiapacific.com /news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_868566.htm (199 words)

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