The Caledonian Union (UC), the main independence movement in New Caledonia, was pleased on Tuesday to have obtained the holding of “bilateral meetings with the State on the decolonization” of this French territory in the Pacific, after an interview with Gerald Darmanin.
“We were pleasantly surprised to see that our applications were accepted,” UC Vice President Gilbert Tyuienon said Tuesday after three hours of talks in Nouméa with the Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories. .
These meetings on decolonization will take place after the congress at the beginning of 2023 of the Kanak Liberation Socialist Front (FLNKS), which brings together the vast majority of the independence movements, including the UC, said Gilbert Tyuienon.
December 12, “a date of humiliation”
Organized on December 12, 2021, the last of the three referendums provided for by the Nouméa agreement signed in 1998 was organized against the advice of separatists who asked for its postponement due to the Covid pandemic and boycotted it.
Had the State measured the scope of maintenance, against the will of the separatists? Since then, the separatists have refused to return to the negotiating table. Therefore, they refused to come at the end of October for a meeting day in Paris with the non-independence camp, at the invitation of the Prime Minister.
In any case, the UC has expressed its deep discontent with the Minister of the Interior. “We told him that December 12 will continue to be for us a date of humiliation for the Kanak people,” says Gilbert Tyuienon.
A sentiment that suggests an extremely firm position of the party on the upcoming discussions on the future status of the territory on the basis of the creation of a constituent assembly in 2023 to prepare the accession “to full and complete independence from 2025”.
Behind this firmness, the will to “reject a calendar of forced marches imposed by the State, and which can only lead to confrontation”, stressed Pierre-Chanel Tutugoro, general secretary of the UC, at the end of the movement’s congress, in the middle of of November. .
Source: BFM TV
