Tag: Noumea Accord

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A Constitutional Reform Bill dedicated to New Caledonia was rejected on Thursday by the French National...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Thousands took to the streets of the capital Nouméa on Tuesday -- hours ahead of a...

OBITUARY: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Political leaders and institutions have paid tributes for Lionel Jospin, the "father" of the 1998...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Senators have endorsed a Constitutional amendment text regarding New Caledonia's future political status. Two-hundred and fifteen...

Asia Pacific Report A Pacific people's mission to Kanaky New Caledonia was repeatedly confronted with a "profound sense of distrust" in the French state's role...

Asia Pacific Report A People's Mission to Kanaky New Caledonia says the French Pacific territory remains in a fragile political and social transition nearly three...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk As part of a never-ending rollercoaster of instability in French politics, the latest appointment of a...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French President Emmanuel Macron has sent a formal invitation to "all New Caledonia stakeholders" for talks...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French national politicians have been in New Caledonia as the territory's future remains undecided. Leaders from both...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls left New Caledonia at the weekend after a one-week stay...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls' first two days in New Caledonia have been marred by...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk As French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls lands in New Caledonia tomorrow to pursue talks on...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific Presenter/Bulletin editor France's top diplomat in the Pacific region says talks around the "unfreezing" of New Caledonia's highly controversial electoral...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party, the Union Calédonienne (UC), has unveiled the main outcome of its...

By Russell Palmer, RNZ News political reporter New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters has used a speech in Paris to urge France to keep an...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The election of Emmanuel Tjibaou as the new president of New Caledonia's main pro-independence party, the...

INTERVIEW: By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Last week, New Caledonia was visited by France's new Overseas Minister, François Buffet, offering a more conciliatory...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia's mothballed nickel plant in Koniambo (north of the main island of Grande Terre) has...

By Margot Staunton, RNZ senior journalist and Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor A Kanak political commentator in Aotearoa New Zealand says calls to separate New...

By Nicholas Mwai in Port Vila French Ambassador Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer to Vanuatu has hit back at criticism about French policy over Kanaky New Caledonia...

Vanuatu Daily Post All eight Members of Parliament from Vanuatu's Tafea Province have made a bold and powerful call to French President Emmanuel Macron to...

Asia Pacific Report The president and board of the Protestant Church of Kanaky New Caledonia has appealed in an open letter to French President Emmanuel...