Fiji, Sept. 9 -- The pro-independence Front de Liberation Nationale Kanak et Socialiste (FLNKS) has written to Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Chair and Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, warning that the Bougival Project poses "serious dangers" to New Caledonia's decolonisation process.

"As President of the Front de Liberation Nationale Kanak et Socialiste (FLNKS), I wish to draw your attention to the serious dangers posed by the so-called Bougival Project, currently presented as the way forward after the Noumea Accord," FLNKS President Christian Tein wrote in a letter, obtained by PACNEWS dated 07 September.

He said the project undermines the commitments made in the 1988 Matignon-Oudinot Accords and the 1998 Noumea Accord, which ha...