UN General Assembly
1987

Yet, after the meeting between the delegation of the OAU and the French Prime Minister, Mr. Jacques Chirac, in June 1986, and the encouraging statements h the latter, everyone felt that something positive would finally emerge. I would recall, however, that, following that meeting and the subsequent meetings between President Abderemane and the highest French authorities, the French Government decided to withdraw from the French Parliament the Bill on the organization of a referendum in Mayotte. Finally, the French Prime Minister paid a brief visit to the Comoros in October 1986. But the situation that prevails there has not lived up to the hopes raised by all these initiatives. Nevertheless, my Government, convinced of the justice of its cause, has not ceased its efforts to continue to assert its most legitimate rights both in international forums and at the bilateral level. Every time this question is discussed by the international community there is unanimous condemnation of this injustice and people always say that Mayotte is an integral part of the Islamic Federal Republic of Comoros.