Tag: Tahiti independence
France ends 10-year UN ’empty chair’ decolonisation snub over Polynesia
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre
After 10 years of non-attendance, France turned up to this week’s French Polynesia sitting of the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation...
Flashback 1989: Rising storm in the Pacific
On 10 July 2023 -- marking the 1985 bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior -- Television New Zealand began broadcasting a BBC/Oxford Scientific...
‘I’m not begging’, Tahiti’s Brotherson tells France in prep for independence
RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia’s new President Moetai Brotherson is in Paris for wide-ranging talks with the French government and the organisers of the 2024 Paris...