Will Fiji be kicked from the Commonwealth by July?

Here is a story about the possibility...http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/2333270/Fiji-faces-Commonwealth-expulsion

Good q cookie
where as they are a blight on the commonwealth, and should be brought to task.
i cannot see it happening certainly not by july , but good one any way.

They should have been kicked out years ago, how you can have a coup and happily stay in the commonwealth is beyond me. If they get kicked out it means more commonwealth games medals for the rest of us as well - although thats possibly not relevant.

Goodness Cookie dear! Look at ALL of the Commonwealth countries that have had coups over the years...and a few that DESPERATELY need one now (but won't get it)...

Britain brought a certain amount of civilisation to Africa and Asia, but unfortunately, not quite enough...

Haven't they already been suspended? I know a couple of linked news articles say they are "likely to be suspended", but that seems to be the reporter's interpretation of it. Everything I've found so far indicates the CMAG suspended them in December 2006 after the last coup. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/00358530701189734
Have they been reinstated since then?

Bugger, try this link instead: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080%2F00358530701189734

hmmm thats a good point, the commonwealth website lists fiji as a member state but has a note that it was suspended in 2006 after the coup. It doesnt say if its STILL suspended. But if it was already suspended, wouldn't Sir Paul Reeves (the commonwealth's special representative to the fiji islands who was quoted in the first article i posted) know that? The article i read said they were meeting to kick fiji out as opposed to suspending them, and thats how i worded the question. But having said that, I'm confused. Can anyone help?

@carpet suspended is not kick out?

@cookietime: http://www.thecommonwealth.org/document/188111/concluding_statement___31st_meeting_of_the_commonw.htm , point "12. CMAG agreed that, in the meantime, Fiji should remain suspended from the Councils of the Commonwealth." They're still suspended.

@curios: Good point, I'll google around some more to see if expulsion is on the cards. But both the NZ and the Australian Foreign Ministers seem to be very poorly advised on this one. In an interview today, Stephen Smith said "Fiji can expect to be suspended from the forums of both the Pacific Island Forum and the Commonwealth", when they're already suspended!! So you can see why Bainimarama doesn't really give two hoots what Australia and Fiji thinks when they threaten him with something that's already happened!

Having done some more reading, I think Fiji is at risk of being expelled from the Commonwealth. It doesn't seem that very many reporters apart from Alexandra Kirk have done their homework, but this article discusses expulsion, even though Stephen Smith used the word "suspension" in three different interviews:
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2008/s2542290.htm
Having said that, the Secretary General of the Commonwealth has asked that the Foreign Ministers on the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group be consulted to determine the timing of a CMAG meeting as soon as practicable. So it is possible that the next CMAG meeting will discuss Fiji's expulsion from the Commonwealth.
http://www.thecommonwealth.org/news/177370/190039/100409sgfiji.htm
However, the wikipedia page on Suspension of the Commonwealth makes the uncited claim that the Commonwealth has an "absence of any mechanism by which to expel countries that breach its rules".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_from_the_Commonwealth_of_Nations
So now I'm back with cookietime, confused!

One final link. The Millbrook Commonwealth Action Programme on the Harare Declaration, 1995, B.3.viii states that Measures in Response to Violations of the Harare Principles may include "in exceptional cases, suspension from the association". I don't think that they have any options left beyond suspension, which has already occurred (see link @ #9).
http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=34458

This story has gone a bit quiet but here's an update, looks like they're about to be booted from the Pacific Islands Forum, and the Commonwealth is expected to follow the regional body - whatever that means...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/2376316/Fijis-suspension-automatic-McCully