Propaganda by Australia

Australia

While the media were chasing around New Caledonia in search of Yann Celene Uregei, the man himself was on a mini trip around the South Pacific.

Despite his suspension from the posi tion of FLNKS foreign affairs spokesman because of his Libya links, he was nevertheless accorded ministerial status in Papua New Guinea where he met the acting foreign minister Galeva Kwarara and acting foreign secretary Sir Alkan Tololo.

In Honiara, Uregei was interviewed by the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Service.

He was at pains to point out that the FLNKS is “not a unified political party” but consists of seven pressure groups each of which remains autonomous with in the framework of its own political party.

“The congress of my own political party which met in January decided on my participation at the conference in Tripoli the conference of liberation movements.

“It was thus as secretary general of my own party FULK that I led a delegation of my party to attend this conference. My party took its position from the demand of the Kanak people for independence.

“That’s why we attended the confer ence. The so-called FLNKS decision about our attendance was in fact only the decision of three groups of the seven within the FLNKS.

“There is, therfore, no consensus in favour of this strange co-called decision to dismiss the minister for external affairs of the provisional government.

“It therefore appears that these three parties declined to meet with other liberation movements and thus placed themselves in a position favouring col onialism and French imperialism.

“It therefore appears that the party is a victim of a campaign of distortion by the western media and press.

Interviewer: You must have seen this conference in Tripoli as very important.

That is why you attended even though three factions within the FLNKS didn’t approve. What did you gain from the Tripoli liberation conference?

Uregei: 302 organisations from all over the world united in Tripoli on March 17 and 18 to plan a program for the fight against imperialism, colonialism, racism and apartheid.

The conference decided to establish a world revolutionary force and a re volutionary front worldwide which will

comprise, at the same time, both state governments and political organisations of small peoples and nations The conference decided to counteract arrogance and hegemony worldwide.

The best demonstration of this hege mony Is the recent American attack on Libya.

It decided, in the first place, that New Caledonia and other French colonies must be liberated. The struggle for independence of the Kanak people and that of West Papua was explained to the conference.

I also wish to speak of international terrorism. I believe that in the matter of terrorism the peoples of the Pacific are also victims of the propaganda of the media particularly of the western countries.

In the region this propaganda is, in particular, put out by Australia. We don’t need to look elsewhere for terrorism because it continues to be visible In the Pacific region.

The continuance of French colonialism in the Pacific region, the French nuclear tests, the dynamiting of the Greenpeace vessel, arms traffic between Australia and New Caledonia are local terrorism.

Within New Caledonia we have seen the dynamiting of the Palais de Justice in Noumea and the Ministry of Finance.

Those reponsible for these acts have not yet been found. What I wish to point out in this respect is that none of these actions were the work of Col Ghaddafi or Libya but are obviously those of France and those who support its politics.

Uregei: Terrorism is here.