Fiji, Oct. 6 -- The President of the UC-FLNKS and Nationalist Group in the Congress of New Caledonia, Pierre Chanel Tein Tutugoro, has issued an urgent international appeal calling for the establishment of a joint United Nations-Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) facilitation mechanism to restore dialogue and ensure the decolonisation of Kanaky-New Caledonia.

In a letter addressed to the UN Fourth Committee, the Special Committee on Decolonisation, the UN Secretariat, the Forum Troika, and the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG), Tutugoro said New Caledonia's political crisis had reached a critical point and demanded immediate international engagement.

"For over twenty-five years, the Noumea Accord of 1998 has provided the framework for New Caled...