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Alison Hird

French minister back in New Caledonia to work on territory's future status

French Interior and Overseas Minister Gerald Darmanin in Mont-Dore, New Caledonia, on December 3, 2022. AFP - NICOLAS PETIT

France's Interior and Overseas Minister, Gerald Darmanin, has returned to New Caledonia to resume talks on the Pacific territory's future status after it voted to remain French in a third and final referendum at the end of 2021. However, the pro-independence FLNKS movement refuses to recognise the result.

Darmanin is in New Caledonia from 3-5 March to continue talks begun in late December.

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