Paris: A new French parliamentary report urges Paris to apologize for its decades of nuclear tests in French Polynesia. "The investigation reinforced the conviction of the parliamentary commission of inquiry that France must issue an apology to French Polynesia," said the report issued Tuesday by the commission of inquiry.

According to Anadolu Agency, the report's authors described the apology as a "measured act" and proposed that it should be written into a 2004 law that grants autonomous status to French Polynesia. The report emphasizes that this request is not merely symbolic, nor is it a plea for repentance. It must be a sincere gesture, a fundamental step in a reconciliation process between French Polynesia and the French State.

The report also suggests the establishment of a commission of historians and researchers to undertake an in-depth study of all archives related to France's nuclear testing policy in French Polynesia. Between 1966 and 1996, France carried out 193 nuclear tests in Polynesia, leading local people to be exposed to harmful levels of radiation for three decades.