Updated at 11:58 a.m., Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Democracy in Fiji must be restored now, U.S. says
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The State Department said today that the people of Fiji should not have to wait until 2010 for the restoration of parliamentary rule.Responding to the three-year time frame announced for elections by Fiji's military ruler, deputy spokesman Tom Casey said the administration "wants to reiterate our call on the government to return to democratic rule, not a year from now or two years from now or three years from now, but now."
Armed Forces chief Commodore Frank Bainimarama seized power from an elected government last December.
