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Political prisoner Marwan Barghouti
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Tuvalu's Transport, Energy, and Communications Minister Simon Kofe
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President Emmanuel Macron
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France's High Commission in Nouméa
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Former UNDP adninistrator Helen Clark
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Pacific shipping corridors
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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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