The front wishes in particular to register Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyana and Corsica on the list of countries to be decolonized in the UN. The creation of the FID comes as Paris denounces Azerbaijani interference in the ultramarine territories.
Twelve independentist movements of the French overseas territories founded in Nouméa an international decolonization front (FID) to lead their “nations” to the “full sovereignty”, According to the constitutive charter of this organization, consulted on Sunday by AFP. “The time has come to face to lead our nations to their full sovereignty”, write the signatories of this document adopted on Friday, after a “Congress of the last French colonies “ in New Caledonia.
Among the members of the FID are the Caledonians of the Flnks, the Union for the Liberation of Guadeloupe (UPLG), the Movement for Decolonization and Social Emancipation (MDES) of Guyana, the Party for the Liberation of Martinique (Palima) And the Polynesians of Tavini Huiraatira. Outside the French overseas, the charter is signed by the Corsicans of Nazione and representatives of two Dutch, Bonaire and the southern parts of the island of Saint-Martin (Sint Maarten).
The FID understands in particular “Get the status of observer member of the non-aligned movement, as well as the inscription of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyana and Corsica on the list of countries to be decolonized from the UN”.
The Baku Initiative Group (BIG), an organization promoted by Azerbaijan very involved in supporting French independence movements, relayed the event organized in Noumea on its social networks. Its director, Abbas Abbasov, published a video of virulent support against France, accused of “Human rights violation” and “Brutal repression” During violence in New Caledonia, which left 14 people since May.
-“France is attacked and humiliated by the Baku regime which organizes international summits on its soil and against it”, Has deplored on X the Caledonian deputy Nicolas Metzdorf (Renaissance), requesting the summons of the Azerbaijan ambassador in France. Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot denounced “Vaine attempts by Azerbaijan in our” ultramarine “territories, calling for” immediately “, In the unison of his overseas colleague Manuel Valls.
We have received support from Barbados, from the Cuban Institute for the Friendship of Peoples … and believe that we need a foreign power to revolt against the colonizer that we have in common is a brand for me contempt and racism.
Francis Carole, President of Martinican Palima.
For months, Paris accuses Bakou D'”interference” And manipulation on New Caledonia and more generally in its overseas territories, in a context of tensions between the two capitals due to France's support for Armenia, a historic rival of Azerbaijan. Present in Noumea, the president of Martinican Palima, Francis Carole, told AFP that “The FID is an independent organization”.
