This comes amid signs of a change in the way a long-running boundary dispute between Vanuatu and New Caledonia is negotiated.
RNZ reports Vanuatu's government is reviewing the new French proposal on boundary negotiations.
However it remained tight-lipped about whether this advanced protracted negotiations over the tiny islets of Matthew and Hunter.
Both Vanuatu and France lay claim to the remote volcanic islands which lie to Vanuatu's south, and the east of the French territory of New Caledonia.
