The largest lagoon in the world, closed by a coral reef, will it remain French?
In New Caledonia, loyalists and separatists put pressure on the state: the former to maintain the referendum on independence for December 12, the latter to postpone it.
The government should decide this weekend.
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Gathered within a strategic independentist committee of non-participation, the FLNKS, a historic Kanak party, and several other formations, joined forces on Tuesday to warn the state "
on a forced passage
" on December 12.
"
The State must take the measure of its decision, which could be very harmful for our country and for the rest of the discussion process
," warned André Forest, president of the USTKE union.
As early as October 20, the FLNKS announced its decision not to participate in this third referendum of the Nouméa agreement (1998), citing the Covid-19 epidemic.
The government "
required to specify the health situation
"
Although in decline, the virus, which made
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