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October 18, 2022
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira party says France’s refusal to engage in any UN-supervised decolonisation process is becoming increasingly untenable. In 2013, the UN General Assembly re-inscribed the French territory on its decolonisation list, but Paris has rejected the decision and keeps boycotting the annual decolonisation committee’s debate on French Polynesia. While France ... <a title="France’s refusal to engage over Tahiti decolonisation ‘increasingly untenable’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/18/frances-refusal-to-engage-over-tahiti-decolonisation-increasingly-untenable/" aria-label="Read more about France’s refusal to engage over Tahiti decolonisation ‘increasingly untenable’">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2022
RNZ Pacific Delegates from French Polynesia have flown to New York for the annual meeting of the UN Decolonisation Committee. The veteran pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru is heading his team while the French Polynesian government has sent the Equipment Minister Rene Temeharo as its spokesperson. The territory was reinscribed on the list on non-self-governing territories ... <a title="Delegates from French Polynesia head to UN decolonisation committee" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/06/delegates-from-french-polynesia-head-to-un-decolonisation-committee/" aria-label="Read more about Delegates from French Polynesia head to UN decolonisation committee">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2022
COMMENTARY: By John Minto During World War I, the New Zealand government took a big area of land at Raglan from the local Tainui Awhiro people to build an airfield and bunker as part of local war preparations. The airfield was never built and, instead of returning the land to the people, the government used ... <a title="John Minto: From Raglan to Palestine – let our voice be heard out loud" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/john-minto-from-raglan-to-palestine-let-our-voice-be-heard-out-loud/" aria-label="Read more about John Minto: From Raglan to Palestine – let our voice be heard out loud">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2022
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s pro-independence Palika party has joined the Caledonian Union in rejecting talks in Paris announced by the French Interior Ministry. The ministry called a meeting of the signatories to the 1998 Noumea Accord for September as France plans to draw up a new statute for New Caledonia after last December’s boycotted referendum ... <a title="Second Kanak party, Palika, joins boycott of French statute talks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/second-kanak-party-palika-joins-boycott-of-french-statute-talks/" aria-label="Read more about Second Kanak party, Palika, joins boycott of French statute talks">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2022
RNZ Pacific An indigenous legal challenge in a bid to annul the result of last December’s referendum on New Caledonia’s independence from France has failed. The highest administrative court in Paris has rejected a claim by the Kanak customary Senate that the impact of the covid-19 pandemic was such that the referendum outcome was illegitimate. ... <a title="French court rejects Kanak Senate bid to annul New Caledonia referendum outcome" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/06/french-court-rejects-kanak-senate-bid-to-annul-new-caledonia-referendum-outcome/" aria-label="Read more about French court rejects Kanak Senate bid to annul New Caledonia referendum outcome">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2022
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ French Pacific reporter The Kanak people will not accept France’s attempt to “recolonise” New Caledonia, a pro-independence delegate has told the United Nations. Addressing a UN Decolonisation Committee seminar on the Pacific in Saint Lucia, Dimitri Qenegei said since 2020 the French President, Emmanuel Macron, and his Overseas Minister Sebastien Lecornu ... <a title="Kanak delegate warns France against ‘recolonising’ New Caledonia with a lie" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/17/kanak-delegate-warns-france-against-recolonising-new-caledonia-with-a-lie/" aria-label="Read more about Kanak delegate warns France against ‘recolonising’ New Caledonia with a lie">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2022
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s largest pro-independence party says it will not give up on the gains made in terms of decolonisation from France under the 1998 Noumea Accord. Party president Daniel Goa made the statement in an address at the party congress in the north of the main island Grande Terre at the weekend, outlining ... <a title="Caledonian Union vows to end French ‘neo-colonial putsch’ in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/06/caledonian-union-vows-to-end-french-neo-colonial-putsch-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Caledonian Union vows to end French ‘neo-colonial putsch’ in Pacific">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) plans to open a government branch office in the neighbouring Papua New Guinean capital of Port Moresby along with diplomacy offices to be based in Europe and the United Kingdom. In a New Year message from interim president Benny Wenda, he has confirmed ... <a title="West Papuans to open branch office in Port Moresby, Wenda confirms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/12/west-papuans-to-open-branch-office-in-port-moresby-wenda-confirms/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuans to open branch office in Port Moresby, Wenda confirms">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2022
RNZ Pacific A New Caledonian member of the French National Assembly says a consensus needs to be found on Kanaky New Caledonia’s future statute after last month’s referendum saw a third rejection of independence from France. The vote formally concluded the decolonisation process provided under the 1998 Noumea Accord. Philippe Gomes, a former New Caledonian ... <a title="Gomes calls for ‘consensus’ in charting Kanaky New Caledonia’s future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/11/gomes-calls-for-consensus-in-charting-kanaky-new-caledonias-future/" aria-label="Read more about Gomes calls for ‘consensus’ in charting Kanaky New Caledonia’s future">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2021
ANALYSIS: By David Robie “Loyalist” New Caledonians handed France the decisive victory in the third and final referendum on independence it wanted in Sunday’s vote. But it was a hollow victory, with pro-independence Kanaks delivering Paris a massive rebuke for its three-decade decolonisation strategy. The referendum is likely to be seen as a failure, a ... <a title="New Caledonia votes to stay with France, but it’s a hollow victory that will only ratchet up tensions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/14/new-caledonia-votes-to-stay-with-france-but-its-a-hollow-victory-that-will-only-ratchet-up-tensions/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia votes to stay with France, but it’s a hollow victory that will only ratchet up tensions">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2021
RNZ Pacific Leading French politicians have welcomed New Caledonia’s rejection of independence, but pro-independence leaders have dismissed the result. More than 96 percent voted against independence in a poll boycotted by the pro-independence camp. Senate president Gerard Larcher said the challenge now was to make New Caledonia a land of harmony and progress, respectful of ... <a title="Paris delighted at New Caledonia result, but Kanaks dismiss it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/14/paris-delighted-at-new-caledonia-result-but-kanaks-dismiss-it/" aria-label="Read more about Paris delighted at New Caledonia result, but Kanaks dismiss it">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
RNZ Pacific A group of citizens in New Caledonia has asked France’s highest administrative court to postpone next Sunday’s third and final independence referendum. In an urgent submission, 146 voters and three organisations said that given the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, it was “unthinkable” to proceed with such an important plebiscite. They said that ... <a title="‘Unthinkable’ referendum on New Caledonia independence challenged" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/unthinkable-referendum-on-new-caledonia-independence-challenged/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Unthinkable’ referendum on New Caledonia independence challenged">Read more</a>
