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It's more than 30 years since New Caledonia's troubles kept dominating the news in France.
When in the South Pacific one colony after another became an independent country, New Caledonia's Kanaks missed out on regaining control of their destiny.
Years of intermittent unrest ensued and they ended with first the 1988 Matignon Accords and in 1998 the Noumea Accord - the road map guaranteed by France to lead to an independence referendum due next year.
When the 20-year plan was settled on, Roch Wamytan signed on behalf of the FLNKS and announced that this was the first step towards independence.
While the immediate future is uncertain, 19 years on the FLNKS has outlined what it thinks an independent Kanaky-Nouvelle Caledonie should look like.
Its project is to create a multi-cultural and democratic nation.
It wants to redefine the Congress as the new country's parliament and set up an electoral college to choose a president.
It also proposes making its own flag the country's official flag.
And the plan is to have as citizens of the new republic all the people who are on the restricted rolls for the referendum and the territorial election.
The roll, however, is contentious.
At the weekend meeting, one of the delegates Aloisio Sako told the public broadcaster about the issue.
"A stumbling block of all the talks could be over the demand that all Kanaks are automatically enrolled - and here we are awaiting a decision from the French court."
This is echoed by another Noumea Accord signatory Louis Kotra-Uregei, who is the leader of the small Labour Party.
In an interview on television, he also insisted that all Kanaks must be enrolled.
"We remain the colonised people and the self-determination vote concerns first of all us. All Kankas must be called at the right time and have to be on the list."
He went on to say that thousands of settlers, mainly in the Noumea area, are on the restricted electoral roll illegally.
"There is a fraud which has been legalised at the level of the mayors by the vote of the special administrative commission charged with controls."
Mr Kotra Uregei says if the abuse is not cleared up there is every chance of a boycott of the referendum.
In 1987, a French-sponsored independence referendum was boycotted by the Kanaks which led to a 98.3 percent vote in favour of staying with France.
That result didn't sit well and tensions and violence continued until the signing of the landmark Matignon Accords by the veteran leader Jacques Lafleur and Jean-Marie Tjibaou of the FLNKS.
Ten years later Mr Lafleur was convinced that at the expiry of the Noumea Accord, New Caledonia would remain French.
The FLNKS plans to table its plans for an independent Kanaky in Paris in October.
But its relevance is in doubt as a recent opinion poll suggests the anti-independence camp will win
