There are only hours to go to the midday deadline for the Fiji government to give in unconditionally to all nine of the military's demands or face a cleanup by troops.
At the same time it has been revealed that the Office of the President has supported moves for the government "to give in at least a little" to the military's non-negotiable demands.
The Fiji Times reports that these include the call to remove all perpetrators of the May 2000 coup from public office.
A statement from the President's Office says in meeting the military's demands, legal avenues must be strictly adhered to.
The statement was released just before the prime minister, Laisenia Qarase, made a national broadcast in which he appeared to cave in to the military's demands conditionally.
In his statement, Ratu Josefa Iloilo said it was his wish that outstanding differences between the government and the military be resolved within the boundaries of constitutionality for the sake of the people and the generations to come.
The statement said part of the problem was that the government had failed to advise the president regularly on developments on the impasse.
The President's Office has also called on the police to return confidential papers they seized when they searched Government House last week.
The secretary to the President's Office, Rupeni Nacewa, says the police took documents and files that had no bearing on their investigations against the military commander, Commodore Bainimarama.
He said this was why the president had banned police from Government House.
