WESTERN AREA CHIEFS DELEGATION SIT DURING MEETING IN PALIAMANT COMPLEX IN SUVA, 2000-06-09 (photo)

A blackboard reads in French reads 'Coup de Etat' as an emotional meeting with members of the Great Council of Chiefs and coup leader George Speight, sitting in the crowd to the right, gets underway at the Parliament complex in Fiji's capital city Suva June 9. The chiefs and officials from the western area of Fiji were meeting with Speight to formally announce their decision not to form a seperate government in the western province of the country. Speight still holds the 31 hostages including former Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and his ministers and says he will do so for as long as it takes to get all his demands met. DG/PB