 Such new flag would aim to promote a "common destiny" for ethnic Kanaks and ethnic French residents in New Caledonia.The FLNKS flag, first adopted by the party in 1980, is composed of three horizontal stripes of blue (Pantone 286c), red (Pantone 032c) and green (Pantone 347c) charged with a yellow (Pantone 102c) disc of a diameter two-thirds the height of the flag centered at a position of one-third the width of the flag, measured from the hoist side.The disc is fibrated black and defaced with a vertical symbol, also black.