Tag: Independence referendum
New Zealand urged to take bolder stand over New Caledonia’s third...
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand should join others in calling New Caledonia's third independence referendum invalid, one of the founders of the Kanaky Aotearoa Solidarity Network...
NZ’s Winston Peters calls for ‘more diplomacy, engagement, compromise’ in New...
RNZ Pacific
The Pacific Island Forum could serve as a "constructive force" to find a "path forward" in Kanaky New Caledonia, New Zealand Foreign Affairs...
‘France has caused this crisis’ – Pacific Islands Forum offers support...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Cook Islands Prime Minister and Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) chair Mark Brown has written to the president of the...
Former New Caledonia-based envoy appointed French President’s chief
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ French Pacific correspondent
A former New Caledonia-based High Commissioner, Patrice Faure, has been appointed Chief-of-Staff of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Faure is...
New Caledonia’s Backès resigns from French govt after losing Senate vote
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ French Pacific correspondent
A prominent pro-France leader in New Caledonia, Sonia Backès, has resigned from the French government after a...
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...
FLNKS message to French PM about Kanak ‘humiliation’ over referendum
By Jan Kohout, RNZ Pacific journalist
New Caledonia's Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) say they will tell the French Prime Minister of the...
France rules out New Caledonia referendums for five years
RNZ Pacific
The French government says it will not organise another referendum in Kanaky New Caledonia during the French President's current five-year term.
A year ago,...
New Caledonia township Canala marks independence referendum anniversary
RNZ Pacific
The local administration in the New Caledonian township of Canala stayed shut on Monday to mark the first anniversary of the last referendum...
Caledonian Union vows to end French ‘neo-colonial putsch’ in Pacific
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...
‘France still doesn’t understand us Kanaks after 30 years of dialogue’
By Jan Kohout in Noumea
There have been mixed opinions from New Caledonia's communities after the third and final referendum returned a 96 percent vote...
Pro-independence delegation seeks UN backing over New Caledonia vote
RNZ Pacific
A pro-independence delegation from New Caledonia has left for New York to raise its opposition to the independence referendum due this Sunday with...
Unease builds over final Kanaky New Caledonia independence referendum
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
There is growing unease over the French decision to hold Kanaky New Caledonia's third and final independence referendum on...
France deploys big force to secure New Caledonia referendum
RNZ Pacific
France has detailed an unprecedented security set-up for New Caledonia's third and final independence referendum on December 12.
The French authorities made the announcement...
Treason trial of West Papua’s Victor Yeimo begins amid calls for...
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist
The trial of West Papuan political prisoner Victor Yeimo has begun in an Indonesian court in Jayapura.
Yeimo, who is...