Fiji expels Australian and NZ envoys

Fiji has told Australia's and New Zealand's envoys to leave the Pacific country
within 24 hours because of interference in its internal affairs, news reports say.
Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama announced that the high commissioners of
Australia and New Zealand would be given one day to leave, the Fiji Times reported.
It also said Cdre Bainimarama had withdrawn Fiji's envoys in Australia and New Zealand.
He made the announcement in Suva on Tuesday evening, saying it was the result of the
impact of the Australian and New Zealand governments' positions on Fiji.
The announcement was made after a cabinet meeting and followed consultation with
Vice President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, the Fiji Times said.
Fiji was plunged into crisis in April after the president reappointed Cdre
Bainimarama as prime minister, less than two days after the High Court ruled the
military leader's 2006 coup and subsequent government was illegal.
Fiji's president fired the judges who a day earlier had declared the military
government illegal, deepening the troubled South Pacific country's political
turmoil.
President Ratu Josefa Iloilo announced in a nationally broadcast radio address that
he had abolished the constitution, assumed all governing power and revoked all
judicial appointments.
The move came one day after the country's second-highest court ruled that armed
forces chief Cdre Bainimarama's government that took power after a 2006 coup was
illegal, effectively creating a power vacuum.