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Some 20 members of the French Polynesian National Council were interrogated by the French Polynesian authorities for allegations of slander. Mr Tuihani said that the message was a low blow and was intended to disparage it in the run-up to the elections. Said the note was full of falsehoods, insulting and humiliating.
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Noting that there was no lack of barriers, he quoted 40 years of the French state concealing the facts and the endorsement of the testing by Gaston Flosse, a member of the French state. ASSOCIATION 193 said the last two chairmen, Edouard Fritch and Gaston Flosse, both alleged they were lying on French soil about the risk of the test-run.
Illegal occupation of French Polynesia villa accuses Chinesesians
They have allegedly occupied a small villa in French Polynesia where their consulates are located unlawfully, while internal policymakers ignore the controversy over the appeasement of China. A deal that has been autographed this weeks allows the China Embassy to remain in the Residence Taina, a French colonial-style residence near Tahiti's capitol Pape'ete, which has been letting it since 2007.
However, there have been repeated disagreements with the proprietor, 76-year-old Huguette Ly, and her daugther Eva Bitton, who have charged the diplomat with being on the premises since the lease contract ended at the end of February. Mrs. Bitton said they gave the leaseholders six months to move out, and had made that proposal because the Chinese consulate declined to pay waste accumulation charges and public utilities bills for a decade. t...
However, the Chinese Consulate attorney explained to ABC that Ms Bitton had given her oral consent before the attorneys on 20 February to allow them another six months' residence, an assertion that Ms Bitton had denied. With the help of attorneys, both the landlords and the Chinese consulate have arranged this weekend that the diplomatic staff may remain on the premises until the end of August.
Marie Eftimie-Spitz, an attorney at the Consulate of China, dismissed the accusations made by Ms Bitton, who also initiated an on-line Petition for assistance. "People from China were promising her[my mother] that everything was just fine, that she could rely on them," Ms. Bitton said to ABC's Pacific Beat-Programme.
" "At first it was to accommodate the consul, then.... they turned it into a visa bureau and put a satelite plate on the rooftop and forbade her to ever come back into the house," Ms Bitton said. Anne-Marie Brady, a New Zealand policy scholar at Canterbury University, said the case sums up the "dilemma of the people of the Pacific in their dealings with an emerging China".
Mrs Brady has previously conducted comprehensive research into how China used softpower technologies in markets such as New Zealand. After returning from the last three week in French Polynesia, she said she thought these technologies were also at work there. "French agent here.... and I have been informed by many quarters that they do not want to anger China.
" Mrs Bitton maintains that she was said the same thing at her meeting with the French High Commissioner and other civil servants. "With all the investments China is making at this point, he said you understood that all our favor in this case is going to China," said Ms. Bitton. However, a High Commissioner spokesman said to ABC that he had informed Mrs Bitton that the French State could not interfere in judicial affairs between two separate political entities.
The Tahiti Nui Ocean Foods, a wholly owned affiliate of the China Tianrui Group mine, has been given the go-ahead to construct a huge fishing operation in the Hao Atoll. French Polynesia has a great need for overseas investments when there are high levels of unemploymen. "You don't want to disturb this, there are better or better prospects of getting more, attracting more China investment," said Ms. Brady.
The French advisor for French government issues, Sebastien Goulard, who is working on EU-Chinese one-belt one road initiatives, has agreed. "France-Polynesia is looking for a closer relationship with China. Polynesia's government does not want, say, to harm China's emotions because it wants China to focus mainly on investing in travel and communication," said Dr. Goulard.
However, he said he did not believe that China should be seen as a menace in French Polynesia. There is no greater visibility of China's interest in Tahiti," he said. At the beginning of this monthly, the Consul General of China, Shen Zhiliang, said to the Tahiti Infos news website that the Hao fishing station is part of China's One Belt One Road Initative.
There are also many China enterprises interested in the development of the tourist industry, he said.