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Posted at 20:53 on 03 January, 2005 UTC
One of Fiji’s former deputy prime ministers, Adi Kuini Speed, has died after a long battle with cancer.
Radio Australia reports that she was 55.
Adi Kuini was a career civil servant who left the Public Service Commission in 1989 as Acting Director Personnel.
In 1998, she led the Fijian Association Party in a coalition government with the Fiji Labour Party and the PANU parties.
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