Tag: Roch Wamytan
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Shock over pro-independence leader charges, transfer to...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
A group of pro-independence leaders charged with allegedly organising protests that turned into violent unrest in...
Controversial Azerbaijan deal sparks fresh row in New Caledonia
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
The signing of a controversial memorandum of cooperation between New Caledonia's Congress and the National...
‘Ambitious’ French political document presented to New Caledonian parties
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ French Pacific correspondent
Inclusive talks in Paris between France and Kanaky New Caledonia's politicians have yielded outcomes, including a French-submitted document...
Time for France to grant New Caledonia independence, says Wamytan
Asia Pacific Report
Kanaky New Caledonia's parliamentary President (speaker) Roch Wamytan says it is time for France to end colonisation in the Pacific territory.
Speaking to...
French minister says FLNKS ‘willing to discuss’ election roll changes
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
New Caledonia's pro-independence parties are prepared to negotiate changes to the provincial electoral rolls, according to French Overseas Minister...
Kanaky New Caledonia’s FLNKS wants ICJ advice on contested vote
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) says the advice of the International Court of Justice...
Caledonian Union dismisses ‘two generations to self-determination’ comment as an insult
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party says the latest French pronouncement on self-determination is an insult to the decolonisation process.
Amid...
‘Decolonisation must continue’, says Kanak independence campaigner
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
France has been warned against attempts to abandon the New Caledonian decolonisation process pursued for more than two decades.
A...
Unfinished business over New Caledonian decolonisation – new challenges after ‘stolen’...
Brief reports have surfaced about the separate bilateral meetings of the Kanaky New Caledonia pro- and anti- independence representatives with French Prime Minister Élisabeth...
France holds future pact talks with New Caledonia’s rival groups
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has held separate meetings with New Caledonia's rival factions about the territory's future as...
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...
Pro-independence Kanaks sign pact with West Papuan movement
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Liberation Movement for West...
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...
Kanaky New Caledonia could become ‘associated’ with France, says Wamytan
By RNZ Pacific
The president of New Caledonia's parliamentary Congress says the Pacific territory could become an independent state associated with France.
The suggestion was made...