Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has cancelled his visit to New Caledonia, due to unrest throughout the French Pacific territory.
Peters and a delegation of other ministers were due to visit the capital Nouméa later this week.
On Monday demonstrations, marches and confrontations with security forces spread throughout New Caledonia with hot points in suburbs of Nouméa.
It came ahead of a vote in Paris's National Assembly on a government-tabled Constitutional amendment.
By the evening, several violent confrontations were still taking place between pro-independence militants and police.
Officials were working to set a new date for the visit, Peters said.
RNZ
