WEST PAPUA NATIONAL CONSENSUS: We are ready, and cannot afford to wait any longer

STATEMENT
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WEST PAPUA NATIONAL CONSENSUS
We are ready, and cannot afford to wait any longer

The West Papua National Consensus requests the pacific Island Forum to adopt
measures that will further the initiatives taken the Vanuatu government in
2010.

The bill sponsored by Prime Minister Eduard Natapei and Opposition leader
Maxime Carlot Korman on 19 June 2010 cleared passage for the government to
sponsor West Papua into the Melanesian Spearhead Group, the Pacific Island
Forum and the Africa Caribbean Group.

Wantok blong yumi Bill, calls for the UN General Assembly to seek the opinion
of the International Count of Justice about the New York Agreement, by which
West Papua was ceded from the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the republic of
Indonesia in 1962 and removed from UN Decolonization List in 1969.

August, 2010

Jacob Rumbiak
Foreign Affairs, West Papua National Authority
(WEST PAPUA NATIONAL CONSENSUS