New Caledonia's pro-independence umbrella organisation says it doesn't recognise the legitimacy and validity of the third and final referendum on independence from France.
Its statement says the referendum was not in the spirit of the 1998 Noumea Accord and the UN resolutions on the territory's decolonisation.
Sunday's vote was boycotted because of France's refusal to postpone it to next year to consider the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Kanak population.
My colleague Walter Zweifel has been following all of the responses to the referendum result.
Kia ora Walter welcome back on Pacific Waves the last time we spoke not much had been said by the Kanaks and pro-independence parties but we have heard from them now what are they saying?
People prepare to casts their ballot for the referendum on independence at a polling station of the City Hall in Noumea, on the French South Pacific territory of New Caledonia on December 12, 2021. Photo: Theo Rouby / AFP
