This undated file image attached in a statement released on August 30, 2014 on the Hanin Network website, a militant website, shows Fijian U.N. peacekeepers who were seized by The Nusra Front on August 28, 2014, in the Golan Heights in the buffer zone between Syria and Israel.

Fiji says its 45 United Nations peacekeepers being held captive in Syria are shown in a new video posted on YouTube.

The video shows two men speaking in Arabic with the Fijian troops sitting cross-legged in the background.

Near the end of the 15-minute video, one of the Fijian soldiers speaks in English.

Fijian government spokeswoman Sharon Smith-Johns said on Thursday the soldiers depicted in the video are those being held by the Nusra Front and identified the Fijian speaking as Captain Savenaca Rabuka.

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