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Article: Consolidating existing ties: France and the South Pacific in the 1990s.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
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On 11 May 1993 readers of The New Zealand Herald encountered a large picture on page one depicting a French sailor hoisting a tricolour, with Auckland harbour as backdrop. The event was the arrival of the Jacques Cartier, paying the first visit to New Zealand by a French naval vessel since before the French bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland's port in July 1985. The port call was hailed in the national media, and by the National Government, as indicative of the extent to which Franco-New Zealand relations had improved since the days of l'affaire Greenpeace.
Although given great prominence, the visit by the Jacques Cartier was by no means the first example ...