Representatives of independence movements from several overseas territories and Corsica gathered Thursday and Friday in New Caledonia for the constitutive congress of the “International Decolonization Front”, on the eve of the FLNKS congress which is being held this weekend.
“Representatives from Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyana, Corsica and Polynesia” are gathered Thursday and Friday in New Caledonia, listed Dominique Fochi, Secretary General of the Caledonian Union, one of the parties which form the FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front). They are present for the constitutive congress of the “International Decolonization Front”.
“We welcome within our walls the brothers of the International Decolonization Front who met a few months ago in Azerbaijan and who also aspire to be freed from the colonial yoke“, declared on the sidelines of a press conference Aloiso Saiko of the FLNKS, this Thursday, January 23.
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The Nouméa Congress brings together Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyana, New Caledonia, Corsica and French Polynesia for France and, on the Dutch side, Bonaire and the southern part of the island of Saint-Martin ( Sint Maarten).
Ce “Congress of the last French colonies” must “decide on the name, political charter and statutes of the International Decolonization Front“, specified in a video published on social networks Francis Carole, president of Palima, the party for the liberation of Martinique.
The objective is to decide on joint actions, specified Francis Carole. “We cannot remain pleasure fish in the colonial bowl“, he said.
-In July, representatives of French independence groups agreed on the creation of a common “liberation front” during a congress organized in Azerbaijan, in the midst of tension between Paris and this Caucasian country.
The Baku Initiative Group (BIG), an organization promoted by the Azerbaijani state very involved in supporting French independence movements, relayed the event of Thursday and Friday in Nouméa on its social networks.
For months, Paris has accused Baku of “interference” and manipulation on New Caledonia and more generally on the Overseas Territories, in a context of tensions between the two capitals due to France’s support for Armenia, Azerbaijan’s historic rival. Overseas the first had also dedicated a number of her show What if we moved the lines? to this question.
But Dominique Fochi is categorical: “Today, Azerbaijan is no longer in the organization. The movements of the different territories have organized themselves”. LParticipants must then go to the FLNKS congress organized on Saturday and Sunday in the independence stronghold of Saint-Louis, in Mont-Dore.
