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Europe Pacific Solidarity Seminar communiqué

Saint-Prix, France - 15th-17th October, 2004

The 40 participants to the Europe Pacific Solidarity seminar want to publicly express their concern faced to the canting of democracy in French Polynesia.

The "plural" government of Mr Oscar Temaru has just been deprived of its electoral victory of 23rd May with the benediction from Paris. The corrupt and mafioso system of Gaston Flosse is going to be put back into the saddle in order to cover more than 20 years of wasting public funds and of corruption of elected people.

Since he took power on 14th June, Oscar Temaru's government had started the political renewal of French Polynesia towards more social justice and democratic consultation. An economic audit of the management of the last five years of Gaston Flosse's government had been set up and a body following up the consequences of the nuclear tests in Polynesia was about to be formed. All this is going to be called into question.

3800 former Moruroa workers, their families and residents of islands and atolls near the former nuclear test sites, will soon see their hopes be brought to naught. The true and justice they have claimed for years are going to be ridiculed once again.

Thousands of Polynesian men and women have just risen to show their attachment to the change ("taui") they had democratically demanded.

The Europe Pacific Solidarity Network made up of Pacific Island states NGO's, and representatives of 7 European countries wishes today to assure the Polynesian peoples of its support and solidarity in this time of trial. It sympathises with them in these hard days when, once again, they have to undergo the evils of the colonial and nuclear system imposed upon them by the motherland of human rights.
 

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