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SDL official summoned by Fiji military

Posted at 04:56 on 21 May, 2007 UTC

The acting director of Fiji’s ousted SDL party, Ted Young, was summoned to the main military camp in Suva today for a meeting with senior military officers.

Radio Legend reports that according to the military spokesman, Major Neumi Leweni, it was necessary to have the meeting with Mr Young who was acting in Peceli Kinivuwai’s position.

Major Leweni has not revealed the reason why Mr Young was called in.

But a report in the Fiji Sun newspaper today quoted Mr Young as saying that Fiji was in deteriorating state because of a military that had lost discipline and was not prepared to work with the civilian government of the day.

Mr Young also criticised the interim administration’s setting up of National Council for Building a Better Fiji.