Responding to a call from the Socialist Kanak National Liberation Front (FLNKS), a few dozen people gathered at several points in Noumea, New Caledonia, during the visit of French Overseas Minister Manuel Valls, who came to the archipelago to try to salvage the Bougival agreement on the territory's future. "Forcing through" of the text, rejected by the main independence movement, would be "very harmful for the continuation of the process," says one protester. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES