“Bougival is over. »» The sentence of the Caledonian Union (UC), the main component of the Kanak National Liberation Front and Socialist (FNLKS), on the draft agreement signed on July 12 in the commune of Yvelines, was formalized Thursday, August 31, at a press conference by Mickaël Forrest, one of the members of the delegation who participated in the discussions.
The decision made on Saturday July 26 by the movement’s steering committee is not a surprise. Upon the return of the independence delegation to the territory, the first doubts had arisen, fed by the lifting of activists’ shields, expressed in particular on social networks. The opposition to the text of the president of the FLNKS, Christian Tein, also a member of the UC, was soon to be found, before being officially confirmed by the interested party on Tuesday, July 29, during his visit to Corsica at the independence party Corsica Nazione.
For the UC, the Bougival agreement does not respect the fundamentals of the independence combat: “Although elements of a sovereign nation are evoked as the name of a” State “, a nationality, a fundamental law with the capacity for self-organization, international recognition, this document is felt as a draft integration agreement into France presented under the appearance of decolonization”estimates the oldest neo-Caledonian party. “We, what matters to us is the right to self -determination, not to obtain a nationality of paper, if this right is returned to the hands of the Congress to a majority more than qualified”, explains the deputy Emmanuel Tjibaou.
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