A proposal to endorse the re-inscription of Tahiti on the United Nations Decolonization Committee’s list will be on the agenda at the Pacific Conference of Churches’ annual general assembly in Solomon Islands this week, despite opposition from France, New Zealand and Australia.
PCC acting general secretary and Tahiti native, Reverend Francois Pihaate, told Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat program that it was time Pacific Island Forum Leaders showed their support for the move.
When the UN was founded in 1945, one of its first initiatives was to engage in a proper decolonisation process, establishing a list of territories yet to be decolonised.
French Polynesia, of which Tahiti is the economic and political centre, was included on the list.
France succeeded in having French Polynesia withdrawn from the list two years later.
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