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	Tevita Momoedonu biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Momoedonu's second appointment, on 14 March 2001, came in the wake of a Supreme Court verdict that the interim government of President Josefa Iloilo and Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, both of whom had taken office when the coup had been put down, was unconstitutional, and ordered that the previous government be reinstated.
		Momoedonu rendered his formal advice to President Iloilo to dissolve Parliament and call a general election.
		Momoedonu, however, stood as a candidate for the House of Representatives, but was defeated.
	tevita-momoedonu.biography.ms (568 words)

	Tevita Momoedonu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Momoedonu's second appointment, on 14 March 2001, came in the wake of an Appeals Court verdict that the interim government of President Josefa Iloilo and Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, both of whom had taken office when the coup had been put down, was unconstitutional, and ordered that the previous government be reinstated.
		Momoedonu, however, stood as a candidate for the House of Representatives on the Bei Kei Viti Party ticket, but was defeated.
		As of April 2005, Momoedonu is Fiji's Ambassador to Japan.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Tevita-Momoedonu.htm (689 words)

	Wansolwara (Print Edition)
		With elections also came innovative ways from the media industry of educating and making people aware of what the politicians and their agendas are and what effect it would have on the nation and people.
		Tevita does not feel that this is the first show of its kind.
		Momoedonu puts on his serious face and carries off his work and uses the research he had done for the show to pose his own questions when ever there is a disconnected call which can be about half the calls that you get.
	www.usp.ac.fj /journ/docs/wansol/6301/630114tevita.html (1146 words)

	CNN.com - Iloilo names new Fiji prime minister - March 14, 2001
		Momoedonu, labor ministry in both Chaudhry's government and the interim administration that followed, may swear in a new cabinet on Thursday.
		Fiji Radio reported in a midday news flash that Momoedonu was installed at a ceremony near the sugar farming town of Lautoka, citing Colonel Jeremiah Waqanisau, Iloilo's permanent secretary, as its source.
		Momoedonu was the labor minister in the administration of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, installed after Speight's coup attempt last year.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/14/fiji.newpm3 (569 words)

	Laisenia Qarase - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Laisenia Qarase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Laisenia Qarase (born February 4, 1941) is the Prime Minister of Fiji.
		Qarase has remained Prime Minister since, except for a period of two days (14-16 March 2001), when he temporarily vacated the office to meet a constitutional technicality; the Supreme Court of Fiji had ruled that his government was unconstitutional and that Mahendra Chaudhry remained the rightful Prime Minister.
		In a series of moves that legal experts have considered to be of doubtful constitutionality, Qarase resigned on March 14, in favour of Ratu Tevita Momoedonu (who had been a Minister in the Chaudhry Cabinet, so that Momoedonu could advise President Josefa Iloilo to dissolve the Parliament and call an early general election.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Laisenia-Qarase.html (794 words)

	TCM Breaking News - 2001/03/15: Fiji swears in new President
		Earlier, Iloilo's nephew, Ratu Tevita Momoedonu, resigned as prime minister less than 24 hours after his uncle had sworn him in, saying he was making way for democratic elections expected to be held in August.
		Momoedonu was installed as prime minister for a day to approve Iloilo's appointment as president by the country's influential tribal chiefs.
		Iloilo's appointment had to be rubber stamped by the country's prime minister and Momoedonu was chosen for the job because Chaudhry, who still claims to be the legal prime minister, would almost certainly not have approved Iloilo's appointment.
	archives.tcm.ie /breakingnews/2001/03/15/story6684.asp (285 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World
		Ratu Tevita Momoedonu, a minister in Fiji's army-backed post-coup government, has been sworn in as prime minister by newly-reappointed President Josefa Iloilo, according to reports in Fiji.
		Fiji Radio reported that Momoedonu was installed at a ceremony near Lautoka, the west coast sugar town, on Wednesday.
		Momoedonu was the labour minister in the interim government installed after last year's nationalist coup and headed by acting prime minister Laisenia Qarase.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,32864-1-9,00.html (302 words)

	CNN.com - Fiji's president 'swears in new PM' - March 14, 2001
		The apparent installation of Momoedonu appeared designed to ensure Iloilo is formally accepted as president for a five-year term, as mandated Tuesday by the South Pacific nation's Great Council of Chiefs.
		Fiji Radio reported in a news flash that Momoedonu was installed at a ceremony near the sugar farming town of Lautoka.
		Momoedonu was the labor minister in the military backed interim administration of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, installed after a coup attempt last year by George Speight and armed supporters.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/14/fiji.newpm2 (482 words)

	Department of State Washington File: Text: U.S. Regrets Apparent Violation of Fiji's Constitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Boucher also repeated U.S. concerns over the constitutionality of the earlier dismissal of Fiji's Prime Minister Chaudhry and the appointment of Tevita Momoedonu to that position, stating that the moves appeared to be an exercise to appear to observe constitutional formalities while avoiding reconvening the elected Parliament.
		Momoedonu held the position for only a day before he resigned and President Iloilo reappointed Qarase as prime minister.
		The apparent purpose of this exercise was to avoid reconvening the elected Parliament, whose consent to the appointment of a new Prime Minister is required by Fiji's constitution.
	usembassy-australia.state.gov /hyper/2001/0320/epf204.htm (421 words)

	Alternative Government in Exile Planned
		However, Momoedonu had also been named by caretaker Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase for the industrial relations portfolio in the interim cabinet which was not sworn in yesterday after threats by rebel leader George Speight.
		Momoedonu was also reported to have presented names from the former elected coalition government to form a government of national unity.
		Momoedonu said Fiji was already starting to bear the full brunt of sanctions from the international community.
	www.converge.org.nz /pma/fijiagov.htm (378 words)

	CTV.ca \| Fiji president names surprise candidate as PM
		Momoedonu was labour minister in the post-coup government -- which has since been declared illegal -- and was also a minister in the multi-racial pre-coup government of Mahendra Chaudhry.
		Momoedonu's appointment is a surprise move by Iloilo, who had been expected to name interim Prime Minister Qarase as caretaker premier leading to fresh elections later in 2001.
		Iloilo and Momoedonu are from the same village of Viseisei, where Melanesian settlement of the 340 Fijian islands began.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1027382596018_22791796 (522 words)

	Appointment of Qarase
		To begin with, his own appointment as President and that of the Vice President are unconstitutional because the chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs did not consult me as the constitutionally appointed prime minister, as required under Section 90 of the 1997 Constitution.
		The appointment of Ratu Tevita Momoedonu as ‘prime minister’ for a day was not only unlawful but farcical and fraudulent.
		The dissolution of the House of Representatives on the advice of Ratu Tevita Momoedonu is null and void.
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/press_rel/pm_qarase_appointment.htm (581 words)

	Moral Archive 16
		Ratu Tevita was sworn in as prime minister yesterday at 3.00pm.
		Momoedonu who is a Labor parliamentarian, is expected to resign from his position as Prime Minister today and advice the president to dissolve parliament.
		Momoedonu is expected to be the PM the 1997 Constitution requires to be consulted before a President is appointed.
	members.fortunecity.com /omegatimes/moral_16.htm (16500 words)

	Fiji's illegal government reinstalled
		Momoedonu, Iloilo's nephew and a Labour Party minister in Chaudhry's ousted government, then formally advised Iloilo, under the Constitution, to dissolve parliament and resigned the next day to make way for Qarase's government to return as a caretaker administration.
		Momoedonu, who was not in parliament that day and so not taken hostage, was appointed prime minister on May 27 by then president Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
		Chaudhry said he had not vacated the prime ministership, Momoedonu had not been nominated by the Peoples Coalition and Momoedonu's position had not been tested on the floor of parliament.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/mar2001/fiji-m19.shtml (1763 words)

	CNN.com - Fiji to appoint new prime minister - March 14, 2001
		"[Ratu Tevita] Momoedonu is on his way to Suva with the president and the swearing-in ceremony will be done tonight," Joji Kotobalavu, a spokesman for the prime minister's office, said.
		Momoedonu's appointment is a surprise move by President Ratu Josefa Iloilo, who had been expected to name interim Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase as caretaker premier leading to fresh elections later in 2001.
		Momoedonu became labour minister under Qarase and also held the portfolio under the People's Coalition government of Mahendra Chaudhry, Fiji's first ethnic Indian prime minister, who was ousted during an anti-Indian putsch last May.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/13/fiji.iloilo.01 (240 words)

	CNN.com - Fiji PM resigns after one day - March 14, 2001
		SUVA, Fiji -- Fiji's caretaker Prime Minister Ratu Tevita Momoedonu has resigned after only one day in office as the racially split nation muddles its way towards a new post-coup administration and fresh elections.
		The appointment was seen merely as a tool to allow Iloilo to follow the formal mechanism required to recall and then dissolve parliament, finally leading to elections after the May 2000 coup.
		Momoedonu was labour minister in the military-backed interim administration put in place after the coup by nationalist rebels that toppled Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, Fiji's first ethnic Indian leader.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/14/fiji.pm.resign (222 words)

	PM - Acting Fiji leader wants Speight jailed for life
		RATU TEVITA MOMOEDONU: That's not a unanimous view, but that's my political, you know, that's my position.
		RATU TEVITA MOMOEDONU: Well the only peaceful solution to the crisis right now is to try and get through it.
		COMPERE: Ratu Tevita Momoedonu, who's standing in for Mahendra Chaudhry, Acting Leader of the Coalition while the government is - well, in the extraordinary position that it's in.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s130722.htm (433 words)

	The Hindu : Chaudhry 'sacked'; Momoedonu sworn in
		Ratu Tevita Momoedonu, Labour Minister in the interim civilian administration, was sworn in today as the new Prime Minister of Fiji shortly after Mr.
		``The purported appointment of Ratu Tevita Momedonu as Prime Minister is unconstitutional and unlawful because, firstly, I have not vacated the office of the Prime Minister.
		Secondly, Ratu Tevita has not been nominated by the People's Coalition nor has his entitlement to the position been tested on the floor of the House of Representatives,'' Mr.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/03/15/stories/03150003.htm (456 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Surprise choice for Fiji PM
		Fiji's President Ratu Josefa Iloilo has named his nephew, Ratu Tevita Momoedonu, as the country's new prime minister, in what is seen as a surprise move.
		Mr Momoedonu, a minister in the interim government, replaces acting premier Laisenia Qarase.
		Mr Momoedonu, an ethnic Fijian, was labour minister in Mr Qarase's interim government and served in Mr Chaudhry's multi-racial government.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1219424.stm (394 words)

	Fiji : The post-Court ruling drama,India and the World, News Analysis, India News Online
		However, just one day after Momoedonu was sworn in, Laisenia Qarase was recalled as caretaker Prime Minister on March 15.
		Momoedonu’s brief appointment was seen as a tool to allow Iloilo to follow the constitutional mechanism for dissolving Parliament.
		Ratu Momoedonu as Prime Minister just for 24 hours was to sideline the country’s elected Prime Minister, Mahendra Chowdhury, who was ousted in a coup on Ma 19 last ear.
	news.indiamart.com /news-analysis/fiji-the-post-court--6162.html (476 words)

	PM - Chaudhry Govt's acting leader
		RAU TEVITA MOMOEDONU: Well, because Speight has claimed that the Great Council of Chiefs is supporting what he is doing right now.
		Now that he has no base, in as far as the support of the Council is concerned, he should just succumb to the President's advice and lay down his arms and surrender.
		MARK COLVIN: Rau Tevita Momoedonu, who's standing in for Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry as Coalition Leader.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s130246.htm (328 words)

	rediff.com: Chaudhry sacked; Momoedonu is new Fiji PM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ratu Tevita Momoedonu was sworn in as Fiji's prime minister by President Ratu Josefa Iloilo at Lautoka on Wednesday.
		Iloilo, who will himself be sworn in as president for another term on Thursday, will appoint a caretaker government.
		Momoedonu was minister for labour and industrial relations in the interim government, besides being prime minister for a day during last year's political crisis and is a member of Fiji's Labour Party.
	www.rediff.com /news/2001/mar/14fiji.htm (168 words)

	Momoedonu resigns; Iloilo reappoints Qarase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In his address after being sworn in as the new President, he stated that he had accepted the advice of the Prime Minister he appointed yesterday, Tevita Momoedonu that the Parliament be dissolved.
		He also stated that Momoedonu has resigned with effect from today, and that he was appointing Laisenia Qarase to be the Prime Minister.
		Qarase is to advise the President on the timing of a new election and continue with the policies which were set by the interim regime.
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/hot_press/no591.htm (271 words)

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