 She never returned to Hao.Although a UN Arbitration panel found that France had breached its obligation to New Zealand several times by removing the agents from Hao, and failing to return them, it rejected the claim by New Zealand to have Mafart and Prieur returned because the term they should have spent there had already lapsed.In 1989, Prieur was promoted to Major, and by 2002 she had been promoted to the rank of Commandant.