Consensus on New Caledonia
NZPA-AFP Paris France’s usually quarrelsome political parties have achieved a neartotal consensus on an issue which has divided them more than almost any other: Conflict in the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia. A resolution placing the territory under direct rule from Paris for one year as part of a plan leading to an independence referendum in 10 years time was adopted on Monday with 543 of the 577 members of Parliament voting in favour and only one against. The vote was the first important piece of legislation submitted to the National Assembly by the Government of the Socialist Prime Minister, Michel Rocard, appointed after the re-election of President Francois Mitterrand to a second seven-year term in May. On coming to power
Rocard sent a study mission to the territory and vowed to achieve reconciliation.
This resulted in a package agreement last month between the territory’s main separatist leader, Jean-Marie Tjibaou, and Jacques Lafleur, the head of the main European anti-independence party.
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