What Papua New Guinea wanted

This is how Papua New Guinea would have liked the South Pacific Forum’s resolution on The Question of French Terri tories in the South Pacific’ to have read: The governments comprising the South Pacific Forum welcomed the progress being made in the New Hebrides towards indepen dence, and expressed the hope that all major political groups in that Island territory would work closely together in preparing for their independence. The Forum took note of the petition for warded by the New Caledonian (Kanak) United Front as well as similar requests from French Polynesia, and called upon France to allow the people of the remaining French possessions in the Pacific to determine their own future in a way which allows them genuine freedom of choice, and in particular safeguards the interests of the indigenous people.