After Bakou in Azerbaijan, it is in New Caledonia that representatives of independentist movements of several overseas territories and Corsica, come together this Thursday, 23 and Friday, January 24, for the constitutive congress of the “International Decolonization Front”, announced This Thursday an official of the Caledonian FLNKS.
Corsican nationalist party, Flnks of New Caledonia, Tavini Huiratiraa in Polynesia. They met in New Caledonia.
This “congress of the last French colonies” brings together representatives of six French territories and two Dutch. Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyana, New Caledonia, Corsica and French Polynesia are brought together, with regard to France. On the Dutch side, bonaire and the southern part of the island of Saint-Martin (Sint Maarten).
The objective is to decide on common actions, said Francis Carole, president of the party for the release of Martinique (Palima). “”We cannot remain pleasure fish in the colonial jar“He said. This congress must”Decide the name, the political charter and the statutes of the International Decolonization Front“, Explained, in a video published on social networks, the Martinican separatist Francis Carole.
“We welcome the brothers of the International Decolonization Front in our walls which gathered a few months ago in Azerbaijan and who also aspire to be released from the colonial yoke“Said a press conference Aloiso Saiko, from the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS).
The Baku Initiative Group (BIG), an organization promoted by the Azerbaijani State, very involved in supporting French independence movements, relayed on its social networks the event of Thursday and Friday in Nouméa.
According to Dominique Fochi, the secretary general of the Caledonian independence party Caledonian Union (UC), participants in the “Congress of the last French colonies” must then go to the Flnks Congress, organized this Saturday, January 24 and Sunday, January 25, in the independence stronghold of Saint-Louis, at Mont-Dore.
Although absent during this meeting, the shadow of Azerbaijan hovers over this meeting. Indeed, since last year, Bakou has not chew his efforts to promote meetings between representatives of French independence training.
-In July 2023, the “Bakou initiative group “ had been created, with the declared objective to support “anti-colonial movements “. Azerbaijan had then invited independence from Martinique, Guyana, New Caledonia and French Polynesia in Baku for a conference.
In April 2024, the Tavini Huiraatiraa signed a memorandum with the “Bakou initiative group “this international organization created in July, by the government of Azerbaijan, to fight against “French colonialism”. Corruption, human rights breaches: this country, considered one of the most authoritarian in the world, is however in diplomatic conflict with France, because of the support of France to Armenia A few weeks later, the Minister of the Interior of the time, Gérald Darmanin, castigated the signing of this partnership.
For several months, Paris accuses Bakou d '”interference“And manipulation on New Caledonia, and more generally on overseas, in a context of tensions between the two capitals, due to the support of France to Armenia, the historic rival of Azerbaijan.
At the end of May 2024, it was executives of the sky blue party who went to a conference on the decolonization of French Polynesia, still in Azerbaijan.
In July 2024, representatives of French separatist training courses had agreed on the creation of a common “liberation front” during a congress organized in Azerbaijan, in full tension between Paris and this country of the Caucasus.
As a reminder, L'Azerbaijan is one of the most authoritarian and repressive regimes in the world. Almost all of the media is under the control of the authorities and many political opponents were thrown into prison. Reporters without borders classifies the country in the 151e place out of 180. and Transparency International places Azerbaijan among very bad students in terms of corruption (154e position on 180).
