Tag: Kanak self-determination
Macron warns of ‘new colonialism’ in Pacific, but clings to French ‘colonies’
ANALYSIS: By Ravindra Singh Prasad
In a historic first visit to an independent Pacific state by a sitting French president, President Emmanuel Macron has denounced...
UN told France has ‘robbed’ Kanaks of New Caledonian independence
By David Robie
New Caledonia’s Kanak national liberation movement has told the UN Decolonisation Committee that France has “robbed” the indigenous people of their independence...
Kanaky New Caledonia’s FLNKS wants ICJ advice on contested vote
By Walter Zweifel
New Caledonia’s pro-independence FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) says the advice of the International Court of Justice is being sought...
Caledonian Union dismisses ‘two generations to self-determination’ comment as an insult
By Walter Zweifel
New Caledonia’s largest pro-independence party says the latest French pronouncement on self-determination is an insult to the decolonisation process.
Amid a dispute over...
Unfinished business over New Caledonian decolonisation – new challenges after ‘stolen’ referendum
Brief reports have surfaced about the separate bilateral meetings of the Kanaky New Caledonia pro- and anti- independence representatives with French Prime Minister Élisabeth...
‘Up to French people’ to decide on New Caledonia’s future, says academic
RNZ Pacific
An Australian-based French law professor says it is up to the French people as a whole, and not the voters in New Caledonia,...