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Pascal Vagnat 14-DEC-1995
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Status of the flag
This flag of the FLNKS (New Caledonia/Kanaky) is unofficial, but the status of autonomy given in 1984 allowed New Caledonia to have emblems distinct of the emblems of France.
Pascal Vagnat 14-DEC-1995
The flag was adopted at the first congress of the FLNKS at the beginning of the 1980's.
Pascal Vagnat, 1996-MAY-31
Meaning of the flag
The golden disc represents the sun on which is inscribed the roof of a traditional house with a "flèche faitière" (an arrow for roof) and a "tutut". This "tutut" is a marine shell.
The green of the flag symbolises the land of the ancestors,the soil, the country.The red symbolises the blood given in the struggle for independance, socialism, and the unity of the Kanak people.The blue symbolises the sky and the surrounding ocean, the sovereignty in the Pacific Ocean of the Kanak people.
Pascal Vagnat, 1996-MAY-31