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June 9, 2021
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru says high-level talks on France’s nuclear legacy due in Paris this month should be held at the United Nations in New York instead. French President Emmanuel Macron called the meeting in response to a report which accused France of misleading the public about the fallout after a ... <a title="Temaru calls for Tahiti nuclear tests roundtable in New York – not Paris" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/09/temaru-calls-for-tahiti-nuclear-tests-roundtable-in-new-york-not-paris/" aria-label="Read more about Temaru calls for Tahiti nuclear tests roundtable in New York – not Paris">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
RNZ Pacific A Tahitian academic living in Auckland whose family and home island of Mangareva were impacted on by three decades of French nuclear weapons tests says Paris must pay for the full extent of health and other damage caused. Ena Manuireva is a doctoral candidate at Auckland University of Technology. He responds to RNZ’s ... <a title="Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/tahitian-academic-says-paris-must-pay-for-impacts-of-french-nuclear-tests/" aria-label="Read more about Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear tests">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
By RNZ Pacific A sit-in has been held outside the French High Commission in French Polynesia to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the first nuclear weapons test at Moruroa. The demonstration was organised by the anti-nuclear group Association 193 which again decried the recent law change tightening compensation criteria for those suffering ill-health. The group ... <a title="Protest marks French Pacific nuclear tests at Moruroa anniversary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/protest-marks-french-pacific-nuclear-tests-at-moruroa-anniversary/" aria-label="Read more about Protest marks French Pacific nuclear tests at Moruroa anniversary">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2020
By RNZ Pacific The French nuclear compensation commission, CIVEN, says it will soon report on how to respond to last month’s Supreme Court reinstatement of some compensation claims from French Polynesia. The court approved the validity of two claims by nuclear weapons test victims thrown out last year, saying the old eligibility criteria were still ... <a title="France drags its heel over nuclear compensation claims from Tahiti" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/11/france-drags-its-heel-over-nuclear-compensation-claims-from-tahiti/" aria-label="Read more about France drags its heel over nuclear compensation claims from Tahiti">Read more</a>
