PM Lilo Thrilled with Solomons Support For French Polynesia

PM Lilo Thrilled with Solomons Support For French Polynesia

Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo is thrilled that the United Nations General Assembly has voted to place French Polynesia back on the UN decolonization list and requested the French government facilitate rapid progress towards a self determination process.

Mr Lilo who had personally pushed the agenda regardless of external pressures to delay the resolution, stated throughout the process he had stood firm and ensured that it be put through the United Nations.

Solomon Islands had led the charge at the UN level as one of the primary sponsors of the resolution.

Cabinet made the decision to support its pacific neighbor of French Polynesia so that they can determine their future.

Mr Lilo hopes there will be a rapid process on the part of the French Government as stated in the resolution for French Polynesia to start a free and self determination process.

He thanked the Solomon Islands Ambassador to the UN his Excellency Collin Beck for his outstanding effort in pushing the resolution at the UN level.

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