Dated events associated with this case. Each event is a shared record: the same event appears identically wherever it is relevant.
· Conflict episode
Jimmy Stevens' Nagriamel movement led an uprising on Espiritu Santo from June 1980, declaring the unrecognised "State of Vemerana," which was suppressed by Papua New Guinean troops shortly after Vanuatu's independence.
Significance here: A brief secessionist conflict that immediately followed independence on one island.
· Declaration
The New Hebrides, jointly administered by the United Kingdom and France as an Anglo-French Condominium since 1906, became independent as the Republic of Vanuatu on 30 July 1980, following a 1977 Paris conference and a 1979 constitution.
Significance here: The end of joint Anglo-French rule and the establishment of Vanuatu as an independent state.
· Recognition
The Security Council recommended Vanuatu's admission to the United Nations on 8 July 1981, and the General Assembly admitted it on 15 September 1981.
Significance here: Formal international recognition of Vanuatuan statehood roughly a year after independence.
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