This Thursday, July 27, as part of his visit to Oceania, Emmanuel Macron will travel to the island of Vanuatu.
According to the Elysee Palace, this is a “historic” visit, as the President of the Republic has loved and multiplied them since his election in 2017.
This Thursday, July 27, as part of his visit to Oceania, Emmanuel Macron will travel to the island of Vanuatu.
According to the Elysee Palace, this is a “historic” visit, as the President of the Republic has loved and multiplied them since his election in 2017.
“General de Gaulle visited Vanuatu in 1966, but at the time it was a Franco-British condominium. So this will be a historic visit to this region for several reasons.” While talking to the press before Emmanuel Macron’s departure for Oceania, his entourage insisted on his presence in Vanuatu on Thursday, July 27. After New Caledonia and before Papua New Guinea, the President of the Republic will make a stop in this archipelago.
What are the reasons for this historic visit? “Vanuatu is home to the largest French community in the Pacific, numbering around 3,000, with close ties to France as well as New Caledonia.”Elysian explained. “And in light of the 2024 summit, it is all the more important to show this support for the people of Vanuatu and the Francophonie in these territories, and then the aspect of biodiversity that will be extremely strong in Papua New Guinea.”pointed to the entourage of the Head of State, who said that he wanted to open “new page” status of New Caledonia upon arrival on Monday.
Macron, expert on visits to virgin lands during the president’s tenure
It would seem that the head of state is especially fond of “historical visits” and trips to territories untouched by any presidential visits. In May, he was the first President of the French Republic to set foot in Mongolia, where he mentioned energy projects.
Earlier, already during a visit to French Polynesia in July 2021, Emmanuel Macron visited the Marquesas Islands for the first time as president of the republic. He came to show his support for the islands’ candidacy for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List. “Our treasure is nature and this culture”, “so I will fight with you so that we can classify the Marquesas Islands as UNESCO”.he announced, beginning his speech with a few words in Marquesas.
In 2018, while still in this region of the world, Emmanuel Macron was the first head of state to travel to the Loyalty Islands province of Ouvéa to commemorate May 5, 1988. On that day, a military assault on the Uvea cave, where the gendarmes were held hostage by independence activists, claimed the lives of 21 people, two soldiers and 19 Kanakas, some of whom were summarily executed. At that time, the visit of the head of state divided the population of the island, he finally refused to visit the graves of 19 killed Kanaks in order to lay a wreath there.
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In the Indian Ocean, Emmanuel Macron was also the first head of state to visit the territories, especially the islands. In 2019, he visited Gloriuse, one of the Scattered Islands administered by France but claimed by Madagascar since 1973. “We will say that I am disabled because I am on the beach while there are strikes in mainland France, but no, here is France, this is not an empty idea”– pleaded the head of state, announcing the creation of a national nature reserve on the Gloriuse archipelago, a high place of marine diversity. “We are not here to have fun, but to build the future of the planet. What we save here will have consequences on the coasts, including in France.”Emmanuel Macron added.
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