United Nations A/C.4/71/3

General Assembly Distr.: General 29 September 2016

Original: English

Seventy-first session Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) Agenda item 58 Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

Question of

Requests for hearing*

The Chair of the Fourth Committee has received 18 requests to petition the Committee on the question of French Polynesia as listed below.

Name and title Organization Date request received

Oscar Manutahi Temaru, – 9 September 2016 Mayor, , Antony Geros, Councillor, – 9 September 2016 , Tahiti Justine Teura, Councillor, – 9 September 2016 Tumaraa, Puarai Taerea, President Blue Djeun’s no Ma’ohi Nui 9 September 2016

Steve Chailloux, Professor of 9 September 2016 Tahitian, University of Hawaii, Oahu Chantal Minarii Galenon, Vahine Piri Rava 9 September 2016 President

* Circulated in accordance with a decision taken by the Committee at its 1st meeting, on 29 September 2016. The original requests are on file with the Secretariat and are available for review.

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Name and title Organization Date request received

Valentina Cross, Councillor, – 9 September 2016 Teva-i-Uta, Tahiti Stanley Cross, Honorary – 9 September 2016 Lawyer, Bar of , Tahiti Eliane Tevahitua, President Te Vahine Maohi no 9 September 2016 Manotahi Patrick Laurent Galenon, – 9 September 2016 member, Economic, Social and Cultural Council

Maxime Chan, Honorary Te Rau Ati Ati 9 September 2016 President Auguste Uebe-Carlson, Association 193 9 September 2016 President Richard Ariihau Tuheiava, – 9 September 2016 elected member, Assembly of French Polynesia Moetai Brotherson, Deputy – 9 September 2016 Mayor, Faaa Sébastien Quenot, Director, – 23 September 2016 Cabinet of the President, Corsican Assembly

Yves Conroy, member, Here – 23 September 2016 Ai’a, and widow of a recognized victim of the French nuclear testing in Polynesia Jerry Gooding, pearl farmer, – 23 September 2016 Rikitea Carlyle G. Corbin, Senior Dependency Studies Project 23 September 2016 Fellow

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