'We are not a French province': Vanuatu hits back at pro-France lawmaker's 'racist rant'

'We are not a French province': Vanuatu hits back at pro-France lawmaker's 'racist rant'

Vanuatu's government has condemned a "shameful, racist, and neo-colonial rant" made by a pro-France New Caledonian lawmaker who mocked and ridiculed the island nation.

‘We are not a French province’ – Vanuatu slams pro-France lawmaker’s ‘racist rant’

RNZ Pacific reporters Vanuatu’s government has condemned a “shameful, racist, and neo-colonial rant” made by a pro-France New Caledonian lawmaker. Nicolas Metzdorf, a French politician from New Caledonia and a member of France’s National Assembly, made a social media post over the weekend calling out Vanuatu for “denouncing French sovereignty over Matthew and Hunter Islands at the UN”. In a two-page letter intended to be satarical, Metzdorf moc…