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	French Polynesia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		French Polynesia (French: Polynésie française, Tahitian: Porinetia Farani) is a French "overseas collectivity" (French: collectivité d'outre-mer, or COM) with the particular designation of "overseas country" (French: pays d'outre-mer, or POM) in the southern Pacific Ocean.
		French Polynesia takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic French overseas collectivity, whereby the President of French Polynesia is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		French Polynesia has a University, the Université de la Polynésie Française (UPF, "University of French Polynesia"), located in Faa'a, Tahiti.It is a small university counting around 2,000 students.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/French_Polynesia (1279 words)

	Government - French Polynesia - Oceania: council judicial, government territorial, france time, head state, france ...
		French Polynesia is administered at the local level by 48 communes (municipalities), each with an elected mayor and council.
		Judicial authority in French Polynesia is vested in the president of France.
		Politics in French Polynesia is somewhat fluid, and a wide range of opinion is represented.
	www.countriesquest.com /oceania/french_polynesia/government.htm (439 words)

	Politics of French Polynesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The President of the French Republic is represented by the High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia (Haut-Commissaire de la République en Polynésie française).
		French Polynesia elects the Assembly of French Polynesia (Assemblée de la Polynésie française), the unicameral legislature on the territorial level.
		The members of the Assembly of French Polynesia are elected in 6 different electoral districts or electoral circumscriptions (French: circonscriptions électorales) which slightly differ from the administrative subdivisions (subdivisions administratives) on the Tuamotus and the Gambier Islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_French_Polynesia (659 words)

	French Polynesia — FactMonster.com
		French Polynesia is administered by a French-appointed high commissioner and by an elected assembly that elects a territorial president and a council of ministers.
		France began testing nuclear weapons in some parts of French Polynesia in the 1960s, meeting with widespread local opposition; a series of six tests in 1995–96 was declared by France to be the last.
		French Overseas Territories - French Overseas Territories French Polynesia New Caledonia and Dependencies Southern and Antarctic...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0819665.html (497 words)

	GlobalEcho - Alternative Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The French government justified the police deployment on the grounds that it was necessary to maintain “law and order” and for the electoral process to proceed in a “serene” climate.
		French Polynesia, on the eastern side of the Pacific, is strategically located close to both North and South America.
		Her party’s main objective was to promote long-term development for French Polynesia in a global environment marked by the effects of “modernity, globalization”.
	www.globalecho.org /view_article.php?aid=733 (2582 words)

	French Polynesia
		The islands of French Polynesia have a total land area of 4,167 km² (1,622 sq.
		Aside from Tahiti, important atolls and islands, and island groups in French Polynesia include Bora Bora, Hiva `Oa, Huahine, Maiao, Maupiti, Mehetia, Moorea, Nuku Hiva, Raiatea, Tahaa, Tetiaroa, Tubuai, and Tupai.
		French Polynesia has a University, the Université de la Polynésie Française (UPF, "University of French Polynesia"), located in Faa'a, Tahiti.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/french_polynesia.html (978 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Country profiles \| Regions and territories: French Polynesia
		French Polynesia is a sprawling possession of France in the Pacific Ocean, made up of 118 volcanic and coral islands and atolls.
		French Polynesia enjoys a high standard of living, but wealth is unevenly distributed and unemployment is high.
		French Polynesia is represented in the French parliament by two deputies and a senator.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/3826525.stm (660 words)

	Presidency of French Polynesia - Presidential Portrait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When Oscar Manutahi Temaru got involved in politics in 1977, nothing suggested that on June, 14th 2004, that is 27 years later, he would change the whole political picture in his country and even on the South Pacific scale, by becoming the President of French Polynesia.
		Oscar Manutahi Temaru was born on the 1st of November 1944 in the district of Faa’a, on the island of Tahiti, French Polynesia.
		The French government categorically refused to grant the dissolution, but the cancellation of the elections in the Windward Islands by the Council of State, at the opponents of the Union’s request, enabled Oscar Manutahi Temaru and the UPLD to prove once again the extreme popularity of their campaign themes.
	www.presidence.pf /index.php?74 (1191 words)

	French Polynesia
		French Polynesia, an French overseas territory, is a group of Polynesian islands annexed by France during the 19th century.
		It is made up of several groups of islands, the largest and most populated of which is Tahiti.
		As a overseas territory of France, defence and law-enforcement are provided by the French Forces (Army, Navy, Air Force) and Gendarmerie.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ta/Tahiti.html (283 words)

	Pacific Magazine: FRENCH POLYNESIA: Temaru Defends Independence Comments
		French Polynesia President Oscar Temaru used a freedom of expression argument and a quote from a French government minister Monday to defend his recent overseas comments about independence and his preference for the name Tahiti Nui.
		"Today, when the president of French Polynesia dares to assert that the future of Polynesia is the accession to independence, what happens is that voices rise up to reproach him on behalf of republican principles that are not defended even when the urgency encourages them to be," according to the Temaru communiqué.
		French High Commissioner Boquet sent Temaru a letter Sunday rebuking him for his comments during his visit to Aitutaki and during a trip last week to Los Angeles to address the annual convention of the Morinda company.
	www.pacificislands.cc /pina/pinadefault2.php?urlpinaid=20857 (654 words)

	Polynesia In Review: Issues and Events: French Polynesia - 1 July 2004 - 30 June, 2005
		Not only were they unfamiliar with the political system put in place by Flosse and his French bureaucrats, but the latter had also used a "scorched-earth" strategy after their defeat, leaving almost no records in the offices when the new government moved in (TPM, July 2005).
		According to the Statute of French Polynesia, a government overthrown in a motion of censure remains in power as a caretaker administration until the assembly elects a new president.
		As French Polynesia is one of the least traditional societies in the Pacific, such a proposal is unlikely to find support among the country's population.
	archives.pireport.org /archive/2006/February/02-01-tcp-fp.htm (4412 words)

	Catching the Wave of Capitalism in the Wake of the Nuclear Age:
		Moreover, the southern Pacific is considered a fully-exploited fishing zone, and the waters around French Polynesia are considered a relative "desert" of marine life due to the lack of significant cold currents and upwellings.
		This is a precarious situation for French Polynesia considering that the mainstays of their developing economytourism and commercial fishing and agricultureare highly vulnerable to both natural disasters and world price fluctuations.
		The politics of colonial rule and attendant economic development in French Polynesia are controversial, but it seems as though women only partially recognized the connections between the French government, the tourism economy, and economic stability.
	www.ncgia.ucsb.edu /varenius/ppgis/papers/walker_b.html (4533 words)

	Radio Australia - Pacific Beat - Stories - FRENCH POLYNESIA: End of an era for outgoing President Flosse? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		French Polynesia's Assembly will gather in Tahiti on Monday to vote for a new President.
		Flosse also served in the European Parliament in the mid-1980s, and was twice elected to the French National Assembly, in 1978 and again in 1993.
		Flosse has long been noted for his grandiose visions for French Polynesia, building a massive Presidential palace, creating local airlines and TV stations, even planning a tunnel under the lagoon in Tahiti to ease traffic congestion.
	www.radioaustralia.net.au /pacbeat/stories/s1312716.htm (864 words)

	Jouvert 7.2: Kareva Mateata-Allain, "Ma'ohi Women Writers of Colonial French Polynesia"
		The French government acknowledges and encourages those aspects of cultural capital such as tattooing, sculpture, music, and dance that promote the tourist economy and perpetuate the myth of Tahiti, yet it ignores and fails to acknowledge Ma'ohi writers as valid, intelligent, and articulate contributors to the intellectual arena.
		In light of Ma'ohi domination by the French, the Ma'ohi writer's goal is a political move to spread Ma'ohi national consciousness in conjunction with Edward Said's claim that with colonized and postcolonial writers, the urgency of recovering geographical territory is preceded by the charting of cultural territory (Said 252).
		The French have not settled in Polynesia and are a minority.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /wyrick/test/mateat.htm (8420 words)

	French Polynesia contemplates increased trade to Hawaii, Fiji
		PAPE'ETE, June 6 (Oceania Flash) - French Polynesia is currently considering boosting its exports to Hawaii and Fiji, the territorial government said on Wednesday in a release.
		The cultural centre, a major tourist attraction is Hawaii's Laie island, features Polynesian cultural items, including some from French Polynesia's Tahiti and Marquesas Islands, which have their own "Farés" (traditional huts, known in other parts of Polynesia as "Falé", or "Bure" in Fiji), like other regional countries like Fiji, Samoa, Tonga or New Zealand.
		Last week, during Tavola's visit, French Polynesia's President Gaston Flosse had made the first step in suggesting the notion of such an agreement, which would be reciprocal and gradually lower and eventually suppress all trade barriers on goods and services imports from each signatory.
	www.news.vu /en/news/RegionalNews/FrenchPolynesia030604.shtml (609 words)

	Radio Australia - News - French Polynesian political leaders lobby for support in France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		French Polynesian parliament at a standstill > [13:22:20]
		Delegations from both sides of politics in French Polynesia are in France, lobbying for support.
		The uncertainty appears likely to persist for at least another week when the French Supreme court is expected to rule on Mr Flosse's appeal to annul the result of the May polls, which were won by Mr Temaru.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/news/stories/s1232616.htm (274 words)

	French Polynesia: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		is applied to the scattered French possessions in the South Pacific—Mangareva (Gambier), Makatea, the Marquesas Islands, Rapa, Rurutu, Rimatara, the Society Islands, the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tubuai, Raivavae, and the island of Clipperton—which were organized into a single colony in 1903.
		French Polynesia - French Polynesia, officially Territory of French Polynesia, internally self-governing overseas...
		Polynesia - Polynesia [Gr.,=many islands], one of the three main divisions of Oceania, in the central and S...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107550.html (349 words)

	French Polynesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Main articles on politics and government of French Polynesia can be found at the Politics and government of French Polynesia series.
		French is the official language of French Polynesia.*
		French Southern Territories (Amsterdam Island · Saint-Paul Island · Crozet Islands · Kerguelen Islands · Adélie Land) · Clipperton · Scattered islands in the Indian Ocean
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_Polynesia (1202 words)

	The Pacific: Uninvited Guests - NI 101 - We are Kanaks
		In French law, New Caledonia and French Polynesia are `territories' and therefore sovereign In reality they are imperial colonies.
		In French Polynesia moves for internal autonomy and independence are muted.
		When the French began to move in they found the tribes in New Caledonia with their own way of life and their own customs.
	www.newint.org /issue101/kanaks.htm (2195 words)

	Tahiti: 1971 to 2005!
		Pape'ete, the Capital of French Polynesia, and located on Tahiti had a population of 25,342 individuals (or 32% of Tahiti and 21% of the total population of French Polynesia).
		In 2004, the estimated population for all of French Polynesia was 266,339 with 170,457 on the island of Tahiti alone (or 54% of the total population of French Polynesia).
		French Polynesia's minister of traditional arts and traditional crafts, Natacha Taura is leading the delegation.
	www.csuchico.edu /~curban/Tahiti2005.html (3978 words)

	Politics of French Polynesia - Wikipedia Mirror
		The President of the French Republic is represented by the High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia (Le Haut-Commissaire de la République en Polynésie française).
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		French Polynesia · New Zealand · Niue · Pitcairn · Samoa · Tokelau · Tonga · Tuvalu · Wallis and Futuna
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Politics_of_French_Polynesia (689 words)

	Radio Australia - Pacific Beat - Stories - FRENCH POLYNESIA: Two dissidents leave government coalition
		MACLELLAN: In elections last May for French Polynesia's local Assembly, a coalition of pro-independence and pro-autonomy parties, the Union for Democracy, won a narrow majority.
		Jean Marc Regnault is lecturer in politics at the University of French Polynesia:
		For this reason, French Polynesian politics is always unstable, with frequent changes of allegiance.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/pacbeat/stories/s1214044.htm (778 words)

	Gump Research Station
		These studies currently are being conducted in California coastal streams and on the diadromous fauna in oceanic island streams near the UC Berkeley research station in Moorea, French Polynesia.
		In French Polynesia, Walker has studied the relationships between gender and work in the process of economic restructuring in Mo'orea and Tahaa.
		Walker's research in French Polynesia has been supported by a National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship (SBR-9806256), and a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (00-65195-GSS).
	www.cnr.berkeley.edu /gump/Research/pi.shtml (517 words)

	French Polynesia
		Living in French territories is now feeling quite normal and my French is probably the best it's been in years.
		What we hadn't anticipated when we extended our stay in French Polynesia is the lack of cruising friends and other teens for the kids to hang out with.
		Being the cyclone season, most boats that we sailed with last year are already in New Zealand or Australia, and the new wave of cruisers coming from the Americas this spring have not yet arrived as far west as we are.
	www.hackingfamily.com /Sue/Logs/french_polynesia.htm (1143 words)

	Scoop: French Polynesia: Large fish numbers in Moruroa
		The French armed forces in French Polynesia say the lagoon of Moruroa atoll has exceptionally large fish.
		The findings are contained in studies by two French institutes which looked at marine life in the lagoon of the former nuclear weapons testing site.
		The military statement says the exceptional numbers of fish could be due to the absence of any fishing activity in the area.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0607/S00250.htm (377 words)

	Tahiti & French Polynesia
		His French pub-lishers thought the material was too racy.
		With gorgeous reproductions of watercolors and etchings alongside the artist's impressions of two years in French Polynesia.
		A concise, cogent, and colorful overview of the gorgeous art of the Pacific Islands, placing the art in cultural and political context and providing an understanding into the meaning of the art.
	www.longitudebooks.com /find/d/1574/mcms.html (989 words)

	Pacific Magazine: FRENCH POLYNESIA: Temaru Mixes Sports With Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(Tahitipresse) - French Polynesia President Oscar Temaru announced Thursday he had sent the congratulations of his government to French President Jacques Chirac for France's semi-final 1-0 victory Wednesday over Portugal in the semi-finals of the World Soccer/Football Cup.
		"All of French Polynesia is proud" and is hoping France will win the World Cup on Sunday when it meets Italy in the final match, Temaru's message stated.
		Such a stopover in the French capital would give Temaru the opportunity to hold his first private meeting with Chirac since Temaru became French Polynesia's president two years ago.
	www.pacificislands.cc /pina/pinadefault2.php?urlpinaid=23148 (248 words)

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