New Zealand's foreign minister said Tuesday that his country and Fiji's military regime have expelled each other's top diplomats in a rapidly deepening rift, according to AP. Foreign Minister Murray McCully said New Zealand's acting High Commissioner in Fiji, Caroline McDonald, was informed Tuesday that she had a week to leave the South Pacific country. McCully said New Zealand would retaliate by ejecting Fiji's High Commissioner to New Zealand, Ponsami Chetty. The diplomatic spat escalates a rift between the two countries over Fiji military leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama's broken promise to restore democracy by April next year. Bainimarama ousted Fiji's elected government in a December 2006 coup.
