Fiji government to extend emergency laws

2009/04/30 22:06:45 @Reuters: International News

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Fiji's military government ruled out any election this year and said on Friday it would extend emergency laws, defying an international deadline for the country's suspension from the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum. "We made it quite clear that it is not going to happen. There will be no election until September 2014," Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama told Sky News Australia in an interview. "That's the deadline... div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=zfAjUd7BkeY:hxIEQL92Z5c:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=zfAjUd7BkeY:hxIEQL92Z5c:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=zfAjUd7BkeY:hxIEQL92Z5c:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=zfAjUd7BkeY:hxIEQL92Z5c:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=zfAjUd7BkeY:hxIEQL92Z5c:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/zfAjUd7BkeY" height="1" width="1"/
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