New Caledonia

A senior New Caledonian politician has ruled out any further cooperation with the president of the French National Assembly Yael Braun-Pivet on the question of New Caledonia's future.

New Caledonia's rival pro- and anti-independence factions both say they are satisfied with the week of separate talks with French government ministers in Paris.

The French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has held separate meetings with New Caledonia's rival factions about the territory's future as the 1998 Noumea Accord expires.

The leader of New Caledonia's Pacific Awakening party has presented his vision on the territory's development to the French government.

New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS says it will tell the French Prime Minister of the Kanak people's "sense of humiliation" over the last independence referendum.

Beachgoers in New Caledonia have protested against the closure of Noumea's swimming beaches until the end of the year.