George Speight,"31 hostages are well"
The leader of the interim military government in Fiji has toughened his stance towards coup leaders. This comes just hours after rebel leader, native Fijian George Speight, claimed that he had reached absolute trust with the military. Commodore Frank Bainimarama seemed to rebut an earlier claim that executive authority was about to be handed from the military to the Great Council of Chiefs.
Earlier, Mr Speight said that his 31 hostages were well and claimed that he had reached a draft agreement on the transfer of power from the military to the council, which would then set up an interim government. In a statement, Bainimarama said that Speight had nothing to do with the GCC and that the military, as government, wanted to ensure peace and stability was in place "before anything else was done".
