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t-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""> British were more open to allowing its holdings in Vanuatu to achieve independence, it was opposed by the French colonists and finally suppressed by the Anglo-French Condominium authorities on June 29, 1974.

In 1980, there was another attempt to secede, declaring the Tafea Nation on January 1, 1980, its name coming from the initials of the five islands that were to be part of the nation (Tanna, Aniwa, Futuna, Erromango and Aneityum). British forces intervened on May 26, 1980, allowing the island to become part of the newly independent nation of Vanuatu on July 30, 1980

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