BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 11. International Decolonization Front (IDF) has adopted the "Corte Declaration" against French colonial exploitation mechanisms.
This was reported by the Baku Initiative Group (BIG).
The next, 44th edition of the "International Days" event was held in Corti city, Corsica, on August 7-9, organized by the Nazione political movement, which fights for Corsican independence.
The event was also attended by representatives of the International Decolonization Front, which was established in Baku in July 2024 with the support of the BIG, and unites political parties and movements fighting for the independence of the Overseas Territories under the colonial rule of France and the Netherlands.
At the end of the event, the "Corte Declaration" was adopted by the IDF.
The declaration noted that the same colonial exploitation mechanisms that trample on the fundamental rights and sovereignty of indigenous peoples are being applied in all different geographical territories under the rule of the French state. It sharply emphasized that the current targeted economic policy pursued by official Paris ruthlessly plunders local resources, creates artificial prices in the territories, and creates mass unemployment, condemning young people to move away from their homelands, emigrate, or live dependent on social benefits.
At the same time, the declaration reported that with the direct protection and complicity of the French "justice" system, the lands of the indigenous population are being confiscated, speculation is being opened up to serve foreign interests, and a planned "settlement colonization" is being continued in order to change the demographic structure and turn indigenous peoples into minorities in their homeland. The document noted that the French authorities have used illegal force against peaceful activists and resistance movements fighting against colonialism and have criminalized them. The declaration stressed that official Paris is creating an environment of complete impunity by covering up serious environmental and humanitarian scandals, such as the terrible chlordecone pesticide poisoning crime that affected the lives of tens of thousands of people in Martinique and Guadeloupe.
In the declaration, the IDF demanded French state immediately stop its attempts to deny the national and political existence of these peoples, to reduce them to the level of a mere "island community" without rights, through the Boujival agreements in New Caledonia (Kanaki), the Beauvoir process in Corsica, and the ongoing discussions in other regions. It declares that each of these territories is an independent nation with international law and historical legitimacy, with the right to self-determination.
The front, referring to the historic resolution 75/123 of the UN General Assembly, which included the complete abolition of colonialism, announced further global expansion of its legal, diplomatic, and political steps to ensure repeated inclusion of the Overseas Territories living under French colonialism in the UN list of countries to be officially decolonized, and steady continuation of this collective strategy.
