Emmanuel Macron will invite the “stakeholders” to Paris to relaunch negotiations | EUROtoday

After the failure of the latest negotiations, President Emmanuel Macron will invite “The stakeholders of New Caledonia” in Paris from mid-June, with a purpose to “Clarify economic, political and institutional subjects with a view to reaching a shared agreement on the future of the archipelago”the Elysée introduced on Tuesday, May 27.

The Minister of Overseas, Manuel Valls, had led in useless in early May three days of negotiations in a Hotel in Deva, in Bourail, to place independence and non-independentists agree on a brand new standing for New Caledonia, struck from mid-May 2024 by insurrectional violence which left 14 useless and billion euros in harm.

Figure of the non-independentist camp within the South Pacific Archipelago, the Renaissance deputy, Nicolas Metzdorf, acquired final Friday on the Elysée, mentioned on the finish of the assembly that Mr. Macron was going to take “An initiative in order to relaunch discussions” on the way forward for New Caledonia. The parliamentarian had talked about with the Head of State “Political blockage after Deva negotiations”.

“The thread of the dialogue is not broken,” says Manuel Valls

This “Conclave” was concluded on a failure. The onerous fringe of non-independence, of which Mr. Metzdorf is a component, estimated that the undertaking of “Sovereignty with France” offered by Mr. Valls, who supplied for a “Double nationality, French law and Caledonian”in addition to a “Transfer and an immediate delegation of sovereign skills”was equal to “Independence” of the Oceanian territory.

The riots, probably the most violent for the reason that Eighties, had occurred in opposition to the backdrop of mobilization in opposition to a undertaking to widen the electoral physique within the Caledonian provincial election, disputed by the separatists who accused the French government of wanting to cut back the Kanak inhabitants. Since the final 2021 self -determination referendum, boycotted by the separatists, the political state of affairs has been frozen within the archipelago.

Negotiations on the long run standing of New Caledonia had been relaunched in early 2025. Several dialogue cycles happened and Mr. Valls managed at hand over the 2 camps with problem reconciliable positions across the desk, with out nevertheless arriving at an settlement. For Mr. Valls, there was “A failure of discussions and negotiations”however “The thread of the dialogue is not broken”he assured Sunday.