It seems that the Head of State is very fond of “historic visits” and going to areas that the president has never visited. In May, he became the first President of the French Republic to set foot in Mongolia, where he touched on energy projects.
Previously, during a visit to French Polynesia in July 2021, Emmanuel Macron had visited the Marquesas Islands, a first for a Republican President. He had come to show his support for the islands’ nomination for UNESCO World Heritage. “Our treasure is this nature and culture”, “so I will fight with you so that we can classify the Marquesas as Unesco”he announced, after which the speech began with a few words in Marquesan.
In 2018, still in this region of the world, Emmanuel Macron was the first head of state to go to the Loyalty Islands province, to Ouvéa, to commemorate May 5, 1988. That day, an assault on the Ouvéa cave where policemen were taken hostage by independence activists led to 21 people died, two soldiers and 19 Kanaks, some of whom were executed. At that time, the Head of State’s visit had divided the islanders, he finally gave up on going to the graves of the 19 Kanaks who were killed to lay wreaths there.
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