The president of New Caledonia's Congress Roch Wamytan says the territory could become an independent state associated with France.
The suggestion was made a week after New Caledonia's second independence referendum which the anti-independence camp narrowly one.
I asked by colleague Walter Zweifel, who has been following events if this idea of an associated state, is new.
Roch Wamytan Photo: AFP or licensors
