{"id":72862,"date":"2025-07-13T11:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T02:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/13\/new-caledonia-to-be-declared-a-state-in-historic-agreement-but-will-remain-french"},"modified":"2025-07-13T11:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T02:54:17","slug":"new-caledonia-to-be-declared-a-state-in-historic-agreement-but-will-remain-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72862","title":{"rendered":"New Caledonia to be declared a state in \u2018historic\u2019 agreement \u2013 but will remain French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Macron hails \u2018new chapter\u2019 for New Caledonia as politicians agree on statehood after 10 days of talks<\/p>\n<p>France has announced a \u201chistoric\u201d accord with New Caledonia in which the overseas territory, rocked by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/13\/new-caledonia-riots-one-year-on-president-alcide-ponga\">deadly separatist violence<\/a> last year, would remain French but be declared a new state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA State of New Caledonia within the Republic: it\u2019s a bet on trust,\u201d the French president, Emmanuel Macron, posted on X on Saturday, hailing a \u201chistoric\u201d agreement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/13\/new-caledonia-to-be-declared-a-state-in-historic-agreement-but-will-remain-french\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Macron hails \u2018new chapter\u2019 for New Caledonia as politicians agree on statehood after 10 days of talksFrance has announced a \u201chistoric\u201d accord with New Caledonia in which the overseas territory, rocked by deadly separatist violence last year, w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,526,1102,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-france","category-new-caledonia","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72862","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72863,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72862\/revisions\/72863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}