{"id":752192,"date":"2022-07-20T01:10:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T01:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?p=76561"},"modified":"2022-07-20T01:10:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T01:10:22","slug":"second-kanak-party-palika-joins-boycott-of-french-statute-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/07\/20\/second-kanak-party-palika-joins-boycott-of-french-statute-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Kanak party, Palika, joins boycott of French statute talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/international\/pacific-news\/\"><em>RNZ Pacific<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Caledonia&#8217;s pro-independence Palika party has joined the Caledonian Union in rejecting talks in Paris announced by the French Interior Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry called a meeting of the signatories to the 1998 Noumea Accord for September as France plans to draw up a new statute for New Caledonia after last December&#8217;s boycotted referendum saw a majority of voters opt to remain French.<\/p>\n<p>Palika spokesperson Charles Washetine said the French state had abandoned any notion of &#8220;impartiality&#8221; and wants to impose such talks amid pressure from the political right.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?s=Kanak+independence\"><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> Other Kanak independence reports<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The head of the Caledonian Union, Daniel Goa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/international\/pacific-news\/471143\/france-schedules-paris-talks-on-new-caledonia-s-future\">said his side would not go to Paris<\/a>, describing the proposed talks as a sham and adding that if any talks were to go ahead, they would have to be held in New Caledonia and about ways to give the territory its sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>He also said any talks would be bilateral ones between his side and Paris, meaning that they would not involve New Caledonia&#8217;s anti-independence parties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Noumea trip cancelled<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin had earlier announced a visit to Noumea before the end of next week, but the trip has reportedly been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>His ministry said he would visit New Caledonia after the Paris talks planned for September.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-independence camp welcomed Darmanin&#8217;s proposed talks to conclude the process set out in the Noumea Accord.<\/p>\n<p>New Caledonia has been on the UN Decolonisation List since 1986 and despite the referendum outcome, the Kanaks&#8217; right to self-determination remains an inalienable international right.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article is republished under a community partnership agreement with RNZ.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2022\/07\/20\/second-kanak-party-palika-joins-boycott-of-french-statute-talks\/\">Asia Pacific Report<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ Pacific New Caledonia\u2019s pro-independence Palika party has joined the Caledonian Union in rejecting talks in Paris announced by the French Interior Ministry. The ministry called a meeting of the signatories to the 1998 Noumea Accord for September as France plans to draw up a new statute for New Caledonia after last December\u2019s boycotted referendum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4393,20115,5,51340,6,7,5958,5955,50793,30396,12,9275,39835,368,417,20119,40617,38353],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752193,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752192\/revisions\/752193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}