Emmanuel Macron guarantees a “new project” for New Caledonia, with out redoing the “errors” of the referendums | EUROtoday

Emmanuel Macron mentioned on Tuesday June 10, wanting a “New project” For New Caledonia, which he plans to ask to Paris “All stakeholders” After the failure of current negotiations led by the Minister of Overseas, Manuel Valls.

The latter had tried in early May to place independence and non-independence agrees on a brand new standing, after the riots of 2024, launched by a authorities proposal to increase the electoral physique to the provincial elections. This measure, disputed by independence activists, would have allowed the French resident for greater than ten years in New Caledonia to vote with out having Neo-Caledonian nationality.

At a summit in Nice between France and the Pacific international locations, the Head of State needed to reassure the leaders of the area who’ve “May have been concerned about the events that destabilized New Caledonia a year ago”. He reminded them that three referendums voted within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties had allowed “An expression of maintenance in the French Republic” of ultramarin territory.

“We will hold a summit in Paris in the coming weeks to be able to bring together all stakeholders”he mentioned, with out saying a exact date. He estimated that “Neither peaceful culture nor oceanian or Mélanesian culture are completely made for referendums”. “These are consultation cultures where, I would say, the circularity is more suitable than a clear character of the yes or no”he added, promising to not redo “The same mistakes” that within the referendums of the previous.

“We will do everything to succeed and I am confident, we will do it with respect for all and for all Caledonian and Caledonians and also for peace in the region”insisted the President of the Republic.