A/RES/67/130 Noting with satisfaction the intensification of contacts between New Caledonia and neighbouring countries of the South Pacific region, Recalling, in this regard, the conclusions of the eighteenth Melanesian Spearhead Group Leaders Summit, held in Suva on 31 March 2011, including the recommendations for the annual monitoring and assessment of the Nouméa Accord, 3 Welcoming the exchange of letters between the Department of Political Affairs of the Secretariat and the secretariat of the Melanesian Spearhead Group on the sharing of information on New Caledonia, Invites all the parties involved to continue promoting a framework for the 1. peaceful progress of the Territory towards an act of self-determination in which all options are open and which would safeguard the rights of all sectors of the population, according to the letter and the spirit of the Nouméa Accord,3 which is based on the principle that it is for the populations of New Caledonia to choose how to control their destiny; Welcomes the significant developments that have taken place in New 2. Caledonia since the signing of the Nouméa Accord on 5 May 1998 by the representatives of New Caledonia and the Government of France; Urges all the parties involved, in the interest of all the people of New 3. Caledonia, to maintain, within the framework of the Nouméa Accord, their dialogue in a spirit of harmony, and in this context welcomes again the unanimous agreement, reached in Paris on 8 December 2008, on the transfer of powers to New Caledonia in 2009; Notes that during the meeting on 8 July 2011 of the follow-up committee 4. overseeing the progress of the Nouméa Accord, held in the presence of the signatories, members of Parliament, Presidents of the provinces and the President of the Customary Senate, the parties acknowledged the progress in the transfer of powers, particularly those related to civil and commercial law and civil status regulations and the civil security sector, which will take effect in 2013 and 2014; Also notes that, consequent to the decision taken by the follow-up 5. committee on 24 June 2010, the steering committee on the institutional future of New Caledonia was established and mandated to prepare the basic issues to be decided by referendum, namely, the transfer of sovereign powers, access to full international status and the organization of citizenship by nationality; Welcomes, in that regard, the five agreements signed in October 2011 by 6. the French authorities and the Government of New Caledonia to organize the transfer of secondary education, with effect on 1 January 2012; Recalls the relevant provisions of the Nouméa Accord aimed at taking 7. more broadly into account the Kanak identity in the political and social organization of New Caledonia, and notes that, in accordance with the Nouméa Accord, the new anthem is used together with the French anthem and that, in 2010, the follow-up committee recommended that the French flag and the Kanak flag should fly together in New Caledonia; Acknowledges those provisions of the Nouméa Accord relating to control 8. of immigration and protection of local employment, and notes that unemployment _______________ 3 2 A/AC.109/2114, annex.