As of 2016, several of the territories on the list have rejected independence (or any other change of status) through referendums, such as New Caledonia in 2020, Gibraltar in 2002 and the Falkland Islands in 2013. Likewise in 2013 the elected Assembly of French Polynesia objected to that territory's inclusion on the list. There is also controversy surrounding the viability of several of the listed territories as independent nations,