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 SUVA, Fiji (AP) - Military troops were set to secure parts of Fiji's capital for three hours overnight Wednesday in an exercise designed to prepare for the possibility of foreign forces entering the coup-plagued nation, the military said.
The announcement of the exercise appeared to be a show of force by the military, whose leader held talks with Fiji's elected leader earlier Wednesday in New Zealand to try to avert a coup that Australia and other regional neighbors have said may be imminent.
"The exercise will entail securing strategic areas within the greater Suva area and also the firing of illumination rounds into the sea," the military said in a statement. "The exercise is in anticipation of any foreign intervention and the RFMF (Royal Fiji Military Forces) is taking all precautionary measures."
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