Journalist in the Pacific Islands. Correspondent, Islands Business magazine (Fiji). Author "Grappling with the Bomb" (ANU Press). RT not endorsement
Here’s the Treaty of Rarotonga, as signed in 1985. Since then, other Forum members have signed or ratified SPNFZ (just last March, the Marshall Islands signed the treaty, highlighting concerns over nuclear testing legacies from US nuclear testing).
A central feature of #NewCaledonia’s 1998 Noumea Accord was the creation of New Caledonian citizenship. Entrenched in the French Constitution, this is unique in French law (e.g. doesn’t exist in #FrenchPolynesia). But how to define who is a citizen? peaceagreements.org/wggsite/downlo…
President Macron says he wants to revive talks between the French State, the #FLNKS independence movement and anti-independence parties on a new statute for #NewCaledonia. But FLNKS trust in Macron and his Overseas Minister has been badly damaged – they wants impartial mediators. 
Yami Lester was ten years old when Totem 1 was detonated at Emu Field on 15 October 1953. The isolated test site in the desert of South Australia was downwind from his home at Wallatinna, and he later spoke of the ‘puyu’ or black mist, as wind carried dust into his eyes. 
After the United States refused to let Britain use test sites in Nevada and Marshall Islands, the first UK atomic device was transported to Australia aboard HMS Plym. At Monte Bello the bomb was detonated inside the frigate, to simulate an enemy sailing a bomb into a British port 
