{"id":64138,"date":"2024-05-17T12:55:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T03:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/17\/new-caledonia-riots-explainer-azerbaijan-flags-noumea-link"},"modified":"2024-05-17T12:55:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T03:55:06","slug":"this-isnt-a-fantasy-why-is-distant-azerbaijan-being-linked-to-deadly-new-caledonia-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64138","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This isn\u2019t a fantasy\u2019: why is distant Azerbaijan being linked to deadly New Caledonia riots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijani flags have sprung up at demonstrations in Pacific territory, while  separatists from French territories have been invited to Baku <\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s government says it has no doubt that Azerbaijan is stirring tensions in New Caledonia, despite the vast geographical and cultural distance between the Caspian country and the French Pacific territory.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan has said it rejects the accusation that it bears responsibility for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/16\/hundreds-of-french-police-deployed-amid-new-caledonia-riots\">the riots that have led to the deaths of five people<\/a> and rattled the government in Paris.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/17\/new-caledonia-riots-explainer-azerbaijan-flags-noumea-link\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijani flags have sprung up at demonstrations in Pacific territory, while  separatists from French territories have been invited to Baku France\u2019s government says it has no doubt that Azerbaijan is stirring tensions in New Caledonia, despite the va&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1551,221,526,1102,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-azerbaijan","category-europe","category-france","category-new-caledonia","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64139,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64138\/revisions\/64139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}