René Temeharo met Ambassador Mohamed Al-Hassan, Permanent Representative of the Sultanate of Oman to the United Nations and Chairman of the 4th Committee at the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. The minister was able to explain at length the position of the Polynesian government on the dossier handled by the 4th Committee. He presented in detail the statute of autonomy and its progressive evolutions and recalled that the only skills that the government would lack for full sovereignty are the army, security, justice and money, but that these skills require having the means for his ambitions and which are not lacking today in Polynesia.
Ambassador Al-Hassan confirmed that the United Nations was built in the 1960s around the ideology of decolonization and that the last countries to gain independence in the 2000s for ideological reasons took a leap into the void and are today. struggling to ensure their development for the benefit of their inhabitants.
Minister René Temeharo added that the dialogue with France is permanent, which has allowed for the evolution of the Statute of Autonomy five times. A state that can still evolve. It is a relationship of collaboration and mutual respect, which has improved with the new generation of French leaders.
René Temeharo reiterated the invitation addressed to the members of the 4And United Nations Commission to visit French Polynesia to see the reality of the country. Finally, Ambassador Al-Hassan was particularly interested in the seawater conditioning technology (SWAC) used in some Polynesian hotels and the Taaone hospital. Bilateral exchanges on this topic will take place thereafter.
Meeting with the Permanent Ambassador of France to the UN
In the afternoon, René Temeharo met with Ambassador Nicolas de Rivière, Permanent Representative of France to the UN. The two men talked for a long time and made the rounds of Polynesian, national and international news.
Ambassador De Rivière confirmed that he had received the three Polynesian separatist deputies this week and that the main mission of the UN is above all peacekeeping.
For his part, Minister René Temeharo said that it is Polynesian custom to respect his relatives, his partners, and that following exchanges with United Nations actors during the week, he understood that the re-registration of French Polynesia in the list of Nations Unite took place in a disrespectful way, without dialogue with the Polynesian people directly concerned and without dialogue with our main development partner, which is France.
Finally, the two men discussed the One Planet Summit for the islands to be held in Tahiti in 2023.
