Fiji suspended from Pacific grouping

2009/05/01 21:59:53 @Reuters: International News

SUVA (Reuters) - The Pacific Islands Forum on Saturday suspended Fiji from the 16-nation grouping with immediate effect, after its military leader failed to meet a deadline to announce fresh elections, the forum's chairman said. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=B2YRT7pQ7Oc:uk1_Hoakcvo: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=B2YRT7pQ7Oc:uk1_Hoakcvo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=B2YRT7pQ7Oc:uk1_Hoakcvo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=B2YRT7pQ7Oc:uk1_Hoakcvo:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=B2YRT7pQ7Oc:uk1_Hoakcvo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/B2YRT7pQ7Oc" height="1" width="1"/
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