PARIS, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Voters in New Caledonia, France's archipelago in the South Pacific, decided to remain French in a referendum vote.
According to partial results Sunday, about 60 percent of 175,000 people eligible to vote -- mainly descendants of colonial settlers, said "No" to the call of pro-independence indigenous Kanaks.
Turnout in the referendum was 73.68 percent.
Located more than 16,700 kms from the French mainland, New Caledonia was declared a French overseas territory in 1946.