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Independence flags on the road to Yate, New Caledonia, April 26, 2025.

Can New Caledonia keep away from falling again into violence? Calls for calm have been quite a few within the independence camp, because the anniversary of the violent insurgency approached on May 13, 2024. Among the messages turning on social networks, one may learn: “Let us increase our Kanaky flag peacefully. »» The Caledonian Union (UC), the principle element of the Kanak National Liberation Front and Socialist (FLNKS), requested activists to not give in to violence and to honor the useless – 11 Kanak have been killed in 2024.

The FLNKS has certainly taken the plan of “Sovereignty with France” introduced as a negotiation base by the Minister of Overseas, Manuel Valls, and needs “To make an end to the committed political exercise”. For UNI-Palika, its reformist element which has set again because of the violence of 2024, “By taking a position for the first time in favor of the accession of New Caledonia to sovereignty, the French State offers a more open political perspective to find a solution of the future”.

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