Relations between Fiji and Papua New Guinea became strained in November 2005, in the wake of revelations that a number of Fijian citizens, possibly mercenaries, had entered Papua New Guinea illegally and were involved in arming and training a separatist militia on the island of Bougainville.

When it became apparent that a Japanese invasion of Fiji was no longer likely, the commando was deployed to undertake scouting tasks for US forces around Guadalcanal and New Georgia.

He then became Chairman of Fiji Pine, Ltd. and of Fiji Hardwood Corporation, Ltd ..

He also became a manager of Health Fiji, Ltd. but resigned due to shareholder personality conflicts.

* T. a. delicatula – Australia and offshore islets ( not on Tasmania ), Lesser Sunda Islands ( Savu, Timor, Jaco, Wetar, Kisar, Tanimbar, possibly Rote ), Melanesia ( New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands ; Aneityum, Erromango and Tanna in S Vanuatu ; Solomon Islands including Bougainville ; Long Island, Nissan, Buka and perhaps New Ireland and N New Britain ), W Polynesia ( Fiji and Rotuma, Niue, Samoan Islands, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna ); introduced to Lord Howe Island but became extinct again.

In August 1980, Leicester became the first English club to go on a tour in the southern hemisphere, where they played six games in Australia and Fiji to mark the club's centenary.

On 13 May 1881, Rotuma was officially ceded to the United Kingdom, seven years after Fiji became a colony.

Following a historic election in which he defeated the long-time former leader, Sitiveni Rabuka, the former trade union leader became Fiji's first Indo-Fijian Prime Minister on 19 May 1999, but exactly one year later, on 19 May 2000 he and most of his Cabinet were taken hostage by coup leader George Speight, in the Fiji coup of 2000.

He entered the banking profession and became managing director of the publicly owned Fiji Development Bank in 1983, a position he held for fifteen years.

In 1998, he moved to the private sector and became head of the Fiji Merchant Bank.

It received 26 percent of the vote, well short of the 32 percent polled by the Fiji Labour Party, but helped by preference deals with other ethnic Fijian-dominated parties as well as the Indo-Fijian-led National Federation Party, it became the largest party in Parliament, with 32 out of 71 seats.

Following this agreement, Fiji became independent on 10 October 1970.

Under Mara's leadership, Fiji became a giant in sugarcane production.

Fiji became a British Crown colony in 1874, and an independent dominion in the Commonwealth in 1970.

The provision for citizenship by registration guarantees the right of citizenship to any child born outside Fiji with at least one parent a Fiji citizen, to any foreign child under the age of 18 adopted by a Fiji citizen, to any child who was under the age of 21 when either parent became a citizen by registration, and to any spouse or former spouse of a Fiji citizen.

When Fiji became a republic and replaced the Monarch with a President, no drastic changes were made to the institutions of the state, or to their functions.

It had no formal political role, however, until Fiji became independent in 1970.

In this respect, the Supreme Court takes over the functions formerly performed by the British Privy Council before Fiji became a republic in 1987.

He was educated at Queen Victoria School ( Fiji ), where he became the head boy in his final year.

The widow of Fiji Labour Party founder and former Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra, Adi Kuini became the leader of the Labour Party after her husband's death in 1989, but resigned in 1991 to take up residence for a few years in Canberra, Australia.

Qarase said that as member of the United Nations, Fiji was as entitled as any other country to make its own laws as it saw fit.

Fiji is a member of the WTO.

A second edition of the Oceania Cup took place in 1980 in New Caledonia, at that time not a FIFA member, and was won by Australia in the final match played in Nouméa against Tahiti, with the result of 4-2, and was characterized by a poor result for New Zealand: out in the Group Stage losing against Tahiti ( 3-1 ) and Fiji ( 4-0 ), however two years after they qualified for the 1982 FIFA World Cup.

He also helped to launch the Pacific Islands Producers ' Association and the South Pacific Forum, both associations of Pacific nations, of which Fiji was a founder member.

He continued to influence politics in Fiji, where democracy was subsequently restored, through his membership of the Great Council of Chiefs, which not only advises the government but also functions as an electoral college to choose the President of the Republic, as well as 14 of the 32 members of the Senate ; at the time of his death, he was the longest-serving member of the Council.

The Council also recognised Elizabeth II, former Queen of Fiji, as Paramount Chief, but she was not formally a member of the Council.

Baba was a founding member of the Fiji Labour Party in the mid-1980s and was elected in 1987 to the House of Representatives as a candidate of the Labour-National Federation Party Coalition, which brought Timoci Bavadra to power.

The Samoa Rugby Union informed fellow Alliance members Fiji and Tonga that it has decided to quit the alliance because the merged Pacific Island team had failed to produce financial benefits sought by member unions.

The Conservative Alliance ( Matanitu Vanua in Fijian ) was a far-right political party in Fiji, and a member of the ruling coalition government.

In the transitional years of the 1960s, when the British colonial rulers were preparing Fiji for independence, General Electors were allocated 10 seats in the 40 member legislature.

The Fiji national rugby union team is a member of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance ( PIRA ) formerly along with Samoa and Tonga.

Like Banuve, Nagusuca is a member of the ruling United Fiji Party of the Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase.

The Fiji Rugby Union is a member of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance ( PIRA ), along with Samoa and Tonga.

Vijay Singh was involved in the restructure of the Fiji sugar industry and was a leading member of the Jaycees movement in Fiji.

The 1943 strike propelled A. D. Patel to the forefront of the political arena in Fiji and he easily won the 1944 Legislative Council election, defeating the sitting member for North West Viti Levu, by 1841 votes to 554.

The APRLC was incorporated in April 2011 with member nations New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji and the Cook Islands.

A member of the ruling United Fiji Party ( SDL ), he is known to have Fijian nationalist sympathies and has called for substantial amendments to be made to the Constitution adopted in 1997.

Senivalati Naitala, a Labour Party member and a Ra Fiji Cane Growers Councillor, said on 11 July that the bill was a recipe for terrorism and would be a direct threat to politicians and diplomats.

He is also a member of the Fiji National Tourism Council, and serves on the National Advisory Committee for multi-ethnic affairs, and on the National Reconciliation Committee.

On 22 April 2005, Tanaburenisau pleaded guilty to charges of having taken an illegal oath of office as a member of the rebel Taukei Cabinet of George Speight on 20 May 2000, while the Fiji coup of 2000 was at its height.

In total Carnegie funded some 3, 000 libraries, located in 47 US states, and also in Canada, the United Kingdom, what is now the Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, and Fiji.

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It was formed in 1975 ( Naval squadron Royal Fiji Military Forces ), following the government's ratification of the United Nations Law of the Sea convention.

As of 2005, Fiji has become embroiled in a number of disagreements with other countries, including Australia, China, New Zealand, the United States, and Vanuatu.

The FSM maintains permanent embassies in four nations: China, Fiji, Japan and the United States.

France and the United Kingdom have non-resident embassies for the FSM in Fiji.

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The Marshall Islands maintains embassies in the United States, Fiji, the Philippines, Japan, and the Republic of China ( Taiwan ).

* Fiji Day, celebrates the independence of Fiji from United Kingdom in 1970

* 1970 – Fiji joins the United Nations.

Australia, American Samoa, the United States, and Fiji also are important trading partners.

Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Fiji, United States

* Southern Cross Cable, a submarine communications cable connecting New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, and the United States

Fiji and the United Arab Emirates established diplomatic relations on 18 March 2010.

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