From Friday, the island of St. Martin has a new face. Or rather a new frontier. Its route is finally officially recognized by the France and the Netherlands through the signing of an agreement between the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, accompanied by Jean-François Carenco, Minister Delegate for Overseas, and Silveria Jacobs, Prime Minister of this autonomous territory (since 2010) within the Dutch kingdom. This text succeeds the Treaty of Concordia concluded nearly four centuries ago, on March 23, 1648, between the two countries ruling over this small piece of land of barely 90 square kilometers, located in the Caribbean, north of Guadeloupe and east of Puerto Rico.
The island discovered by Christopher Columbus on November 11, 1493 - Saint Martin's Day and national holiday - first belonged to the Spaniards, before the Dutch and French, attracted by its salt pans, imposed themselves there. In the Concordia Treaty, the contours were defined by points of reference...
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