Vanuatu has asked France to resume negotiations about the sea border between Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
The foreign minister, Edward Natapei, made the call after the French Navy detained a Vanuatu-registered fishing boat last month.
Mr Natapei says the Vanuatu government is very disappointed at the way the French navy made the arrest then prosecuted the boat captain.
He says as far as his government is concerned, the boat was fishing within Vanuatu's exclusive economic zone.
Mr Natapei says Vanuatu and France have not agreed to or signed any treaty marking the maritime boundary between the two countries.
He says Vanuatu does not recognise the decision by a French court to prosecute the vessel.
