2:30 PM - HERALD ONLINE STAFF
SUVA - Fiji's coup leader George Speight says he would "die happy" if he achieved what he set out to do - even if "the whole world rejected George Speight."
Speight told IRN journalist Barry Soper he had no aspirations to be prime minister
of Fiji, nor would he take up any other post in the interim government unless he had the support of the Taukei (Fijian nationalist) movement.
Speight and his group have rejected the military's offer of an interim council which was to have comprised senior military officials.
The military government's information minister, Captain Eroni Volavola, says the proposed council would only be in power until Speight's 30 hostages are released and all firearms are returned to the army.
