Tag: Kanak self-determination
Oceania Indigenous ‘guardians’ call for self-determination on West Papua day
OPEN LETTER: The Ōtepoti Declaration by the Indigenous Caucus of the Nuclear Connections Across Oceania Conference
On the 61st anniversary of the first raising of...
French PM meets New Caledonia’s anti-independence leaders in Paris
RNZ Pacific
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne says her meeting with New Caledonia's anti-independence leaders in Paris marks the beginning of discussions on the future...
Kanak trade union USTKE pioneer and militant leader ‘Loulou’ Uregei dies
Asia Pacific Report
Louis Kotra Uregei, an emblematic and radical figure in the independence struggle in New Caledonia, has died aged 71, announced the Union...
‘Find a solution’ to the Kanaky political impasse, Macron told new...
RNZ Pacific
France's new Minister for Overseas Territories Jean-François Carenco was told to "find a solution" to the political impasse in New Caledonia.
Carenco started his...
New Caledonia’s Roch Wamytan set to be re-elected Congress president
RNZ Pacific
The President of New Caledonia's Congress Roch Wamytan is set to be re-elected for another one-year term after the party holding the balance...
New Caledonia referendum challenged in Euro human rights court
RNZ Pacific
The holding of New Caledonia's third and final referendum on independence from France during the covid-19 pandemic last year is being challenged in...
‘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-Macron presidential election committee formed in New Caledonia
RNZ Pacific
A committee has been set up in New Caledonia to support the re-election of French President Emmanuel Macron although he is yet to...
France calls for proposals to revise New Caledonia’s political statute
RNZ Pacific
France's Overseas Minister Sebastien Lecornu has called on New Caledonia's political parties to draw up proposals on a new statute for the territory...
Pacific civil society groups slam New Caledonia ballot as ‘unjust …...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The French government’s decision to press ahead with the third and final referendum vote for self-determination in Kanaky New Caledonia was...
France’s New Caledonia policy labelled a ‘catastrophe’ by left leader
RNZ Pacific
A leftwing candidate in the French presidential race, Jean-Luc Melenchon, says the outcome of New Caledonia's independence referendum is a catastrophe.
He held a...
New Caledonia’s final independence vote today – mired in controversy
By Stefan Armbruster of SBS World News
Kanaky New Caledonia is holding a final referendum on independence from France today. But not everyone wants to...
Betrayal of Kanaky decolonisation by Paris risks return to dark days
ANALYSIS: By David Robie
After three decades of frustratingly slow progress but with a measure of quiet optimism over the decolonisation process unfolding under the...
Paris court clears way for Sunday’s New Caledonia referendum
RNZ Pacific
A late legal bid to postpone Sunday's independence referendum in New Caledonia has reportedly failed.
A leading anti-independence leader and president of New Caledonia's...