Ambiance “Very solemn” et “Heavy”according to a participant. The “summit” on the future of New Caledonia, summoned by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, Wednesday July 2 at the Elysée, in the presence of the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, was poured neither in the warm reunion nor in the drama. But it was serious, two months after the failure of political negotiations in May, aimed at completing the 1998 Noumea decolonization agreement and finding a new status for the territory.
The Head of State went around the immense table drawn up in the village hall to greet each of the 40 political, economic and associative representatives of the Caillou. The deputies Nicolas Metzdorf (Loyalist) and Emmanuel Tjibaou (independentist) arrived the last with the Minister of Overseas, Manuel Valls, as leaving a conciliabule. Kanak customary chiefs have been custom, without ostentation, a first in these republican places. The appointment lasted two hours.
Outside, surprise: Christian Tein, the president of the Kanak National Liberation Front and Socialist (FLNKS) presented himself at the gates of the Elysée with Gilbert Tyuienon, mayor of Canala and responsible for the Caledonian Union. A little pressure stroke resolved in peace. Mr. Tein was not invited, because he does not appear in the official delegations participating in the discussions with the State and he was simply rejected.
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