French Overseas Minister in New Caledonia to Save Bougival Deal

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On the first day of a trip to the archipelago on Wednesday, 20 August, the Overseas Minister met with the independent force, a week after their rejection of the Bougival agreement. This meeting did not change their positions.

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The Overseas Minister said he was "convinced that there is no credible alternative" to this agreement on the future of the territory, signed in July but weakened by the rejection of FLNKS independenceists.

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The Minister of Overseas Affairs is to meet Wednesday in Nouméa with the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front, which rejected the Bougival agreement signed on 12 July. He will install on Thursday the "drafting committee" supposed to legally translate the agreement.

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The Overseas Minister met with the FLNKS leaders in Nouméa to relaunch an institutional agreement weakened by the rejection of the independence movement. The Overseas Minister met for more than two and a half hours with a delegation of the Front de libération nationale Kanak et socialiste. This meeting takes place a week after the [...] Read more Manuel Valls attempts a final rapprochement with the Caledonian independenceists appeared first on L…

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Nouméa, 20 August 2025 (AFP) – Foreign Minister Manuel Valls met on Wednesday in New Caledonia a delegation of the Front de libération nationale kanak et socialiste (FLNKS), which rejected last week the Bougival agreement on the future of the territory. The meeting in Nouméa lasted two and a half hours. The FLNKS delegation, [...]