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SUVA, Fiji (AP) - Fiji's military regime accused Australian and New Zealand envoys Friday of being linked to a mutiny plot against the armed forces chief, before he seized power in a coup last year. New Zealand's leader rejected the charges as "nonsense."
Fiji land forces commander Col. Pita Driti said his government believed New Zealand High Commissioner Michael Green supported his Australian counterpart Jenny Rawson and other unnamed foreign diplomats in seeking to remove military chief Commodore Frank Bainimarama in the lead-up to his Dec. 5 coup.
Driti has previously charged that the diplomats asked him at a meeting last year to replace Bainimarama. Driti said Friday that Green was not at the meeting, but Driti assumed supported Australia's position because the countries are close allies.
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