A Fiji diplomat is in the rebel-held area of the Papua New Guinea island of Bougainville today to negotiate the transfer of six former Fiji soldiers who've been giving military training to locals.
A source says the second secretary at the Fiji High Commission in Port Moresby, Emosi Rakai, is in Tonu this afternoon.
Mr Rakai is expected to return to the provincial capital Buka later this week.
The autonomous Bougainville government is reported to have given the six men until December the 20th to leave Tonu.
The two leaders of the Fiji group have been questioned in Port Moresby.
Reports that one of the pair had been taken back to Bougainville to persuade his colleagues to leave could not be confirmed.
