The World - News from June 1, 1987
The leaders of 12 South Pacific nations offered to send a delegation to Fiji to help solve the political crisis in that country after a May 14 military coup. Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke said he would lead a three-man delegation if Fiji’s governor general, Penaia Ganilau, accepted an offer of assistance. Hawke, at a news conference in Western Samoa at the end of a meeting of the 15-nation South Pacific Forum, did not say whether Ganilau had responded.
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