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Jacques Billant, High Commissioner of France, to the right of Manuel Valls, Minister of Overseas, and Sonia Lagarde, mayor of Nouméa, during the closing ceremony of the Southern Cross, in Nouméa, May 3, 2025.

Manuel Valls hoped for it by bringing collectively behind closed doorways, in an remoted lodge, separatists and non-independentists, however there was no political settlement on the institutional way forward for New Caledonia on Thursday May 8. A 12 months after an outbreak of insurrectional violence, which started on May 13, 2024, because the archipelago had not recognized for the reason that Eighties (14 useless and greater than 2 billion euros in injury), the Minister of Overseas had succeeded in resetting the dialogue between the State and its companions.

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But the offensive of the loyal proper towards a supposed undertaking of“Independence” Honnis made the compromise not possible. “We must see with frankness that no agreement has been concluded”acknowledged on Thursday, Manuel Valls, after his third journey to Nouméa since February.

The Minister’s roadmap, accompanied by Eric Thiers, particular advisor to the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, and a connoisseur of the file, was validated by the pinnacle of presidency. To write the remainder of the Matignon (1988) and Noumea (1998) agreements, the answer to invent should be positioned, hammer the Elysée and Matignon since 2021, between two terminals: on the one hand, fulfill the aspiration of the Aboriginal individuals Kanak to get out of colonization as soon as and for all; On the opposite hand, reassuring those that demonstrated their attachment to France 3 times throughout referendums between 2018 and 2021. Even if the final, boycotted by the National Liberation Front Kanak and Socialist (FLNKS), has little worth.

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