Solomon Islands and Vanuatu for United Nations to Visit West Papua

FUNAFUTI, Tuvalu – Prime Minister of Solomon Island, Hon. Manasseh Sogavare has met with his counterpart from Vanuatu Prime Minister, Hon. Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas, on Tuesday (08/13/2019) in Funafuti, Tuvalu during the opening of the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting. 

PM Sogavare said, the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) was at the top of the agenda of the two leaders. 

The two leaders agreed that MSG as an organization needed to be reorganized to its previous place as a  politicalplatformfor melanesia. 

They also chat about how MSG could be a platform for member states to collectively make decisions based on the needs of member countries to tackle problems such as climate change and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD).

The two leaders also agreed for United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNHRC) to visit and assess the human rights situation in West Papua.

In 2018, Vanuatu had prepared a draft resolution to decolonize West Papua.

Indonesia was also welcomed and praised for inviting UNHRC to conduct an assessment.

Bilateral trade agreements and cooperation between the two countries were also discussed between Hon. Sogavare and Hon. Salwai (*).

Source  www.tabloid-wani.com

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Support for West Papua ramped up ahead of Pacific leaders meeting

As the clock ticks down to the annual meeting of Pacific Leaders next week in Tuvalu, West Papuan activists have ramped up their lobbying efforts to get Pacific countries to support a resolution on the proposed visit by the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner, to investigate allegations of human rights violations in West Papua.

The head of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, Benny Wenda has met with Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare as part of his campaign.

“Most of the Melanesian leaders they are concerned and they are willing to support. Because this issues never go away from the Melanesian leaders,” Mr Wenda said.

Pacific Island leaders will discuss a resolution that is calling for the UN Human Rights Commissioner to visit the Indonesian region of West Papua and investigate human rights allegations.

Indonesia issued an invitation to the UN earlier this year, but the visit has yet to eventuate.

The resolution, if adopted by Pacific leaders, would also encourage a deadline to be set for the timing of the visit, and a report on the situation, to be submitted at the 2020 Pacific Forum Meeting.

Vanuatu’s special envoy to West Papua, Lora Lini said Vanuatu had championed the resolution during Forum officials and ministers meeting last month in Fiji, which set the agenda for next week’s Forum.

“We are looking forward to the outcomes from the leaders communique from the prime ministers of the Pacific Islands Forum country and Vanuatu will take this resolution to UN General Assembly,” Ms Lini said.

Mr Wenda was accompanied by PNG Governor Powes Parkop on his visit to Honiara, although it isn’t clear if Mr Parkop was an official representative for the national government.

Duration: 5min 22secBroadcast: Thu 8 Aug 2019, 6:00am

Source: ABC Radio

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UN votes for better cooperation with PIF but China, Indonesia abstain

On Pacific Beat with Catherine Graue

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With a week to go until the annual Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ meeting in Tuvalu, the UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution on enhancing the UN’s cooperation with the Pacific Islands Forum — the region’s peak body.

The vote was carried with 137 members in favour, and none voted against it.

But there were 12 abstentions, and among those countries which chose not to vote were China and Indonesia, who are both high-level partners of the Pacific Islands Forum.

The full text of the resolution is yet to be released but in a statement, the UN said the General Assembly urged the UN and the Pacific Islands Forum to strengthen their joint pursuit of sustainable development outcomes, while also underlining the need for coherent approaches to build resilience to to extreme weather in the region.

Similar resolutions have been adopted in the past — the last was in 2017.

The resolution follows the historic visit by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to the Pacific in May, when he met with Forum leaders.

According to the UN’s statement on the resolution, China’s representative said the negotiation’s coordinator had failed to consider his delegation’s contributions and the concerns of other states, which is why China abstained.

Indonesia’s representative said his delegation abstained for several reasons, one of which was the resolution’s reference to the 2017 PIF communique.

Indonesia’s representative also said he regretted that one member of the Pacific Islands Forum continued to interfere with Indonesia’s domestic affairs, which is likely a reference to Vanuatu, which is the most vocal supporter of the West Papuan independence cause in the Pacific Islands Forum.Duration: 4min 19secBroadcast: Tue 6 Aug 2019, 6:00am

Source: ABC Net

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August 2nd 1969 – August 2nd 2019

*** 50 Years since the Act of free Choice ***

“it was just a whitewash. The mood at the United Nations was to get rid of this problem as quickly as possible, Nobody gave a thought to the fact that there were a million people there who had their fundamental human rights trampled. Suharto was a terrible dictator. How could anyone have seriously believed that all voters unanimously decided to join his regime? Unanimity like that is unknown in democracies.”

– Chakravarthy Narasimhan, the U.N. undersecretary general who handled the Act of free choice.

Indonesia claims sovereignty over West Papua with the 1969 Act of free choice. It has since been widely accepted that Indonesia’s claim to rule West Papua is based on fraud and lies and that the Act of free Choice was illegal under international law.

For a full legal analysis of the Act of free choice please read this report.
https://www.ilwp.org/…/West_Papua_and_the_right_to_self-det…

West Papua has a legal right to self determination, decolonisation and independence if the people freely and fairly choose it.

An internationally supervised referendum on independence is the peaceful and dignified solution for West Papua.

#SelfDetermination
#Referendum
#FreeWestPapua

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A peaceful prosperous future await us if we overcome fear!

RIP kaka Dai John Tekwie ~ Turut Berduka Cita atas berpulangnya Kaka Dai John Tekwie ke pangkuan Bapa di sorga

Tahun 1999, dua kali pertemuan saya secara pribadi dengan almarhum kk Dai John Tekwie seorang yang pernah menjabat sebagai Gubernur Sandown Province. Beliau juga adalah anak adat kampung Lido, Vanimo Propinsi Matahari terbenam Papua New Guinea.

Hari ini mendengar kepergian beliau untuk selamanya sejak kemarin dulu ke pangkuan Bapa disorga.

Kamipun turut berduka cita dan merasakan kehilangan salah satu sosok pemimpin terbaik Papua New Guinea. Aro sayang, walaupun kaka Dai pergi, secara pribadi kamipun akan mengenang semua peran beliau dalam perjuangan bangsa orang Papua Melanesia hari ini.

Dukungan besar almarhum kaka Dai John Tekwie bisa saya gambarkan sedikit disini.

Dua kali pertemuan dengan beliau saat itu tentu mengajarkan kami bahwa kaka Brother tuan John Tekwie adalah seorang anak adat yang punya hati besar mendukung Papua Barat Merdeka.

Pertemuan pertama di ruang pribadi kantor Gubernurnya di Vanimo (Pertemuan tertutup dengan almarhum John Tekwie). Pertemuan kedua di kampung Ambai alias kampung Lido sebutan masyarakat kampung Lido Vanimo karena dukungan beliau dan keluarga besar kampung Lido kepada kami saat mengatur beberapa kali pertemuan Nonviolent Training Workshop berlangsung di perbatasan Vanimo dan Port Numbay. Demikian pelayanan rohani lainnyapun beliau dan masyarakat kampung Lido memberikan dukungan yang besar senantiasa.

Tapi sayang belum berakhir perjuangan Papua Barat Merdeka hari ini. Almarhum kaka Dai John Tekwie pergi meninggalkan keluarga dan kita semua. Ada rasa suka cita tersendiri saat kita bersama waktu itu tahun 1999 di kota Vanimo. Kini kau pergi untuk selamanya meninggalkan pesan moral itu dibalik suasana duka. Pesanmu”Free West Papua adalah kerinduan kita semua”.

Aro sayang… Kamipun turut berduka-cita yang mendalam atas kepergian almarhum kaka Dai John Tekwie selamanya. Tuhan memberkati

Dokumentasi foto kaka Dai John Tekwie di pantai kampung Lido dan pelayanan rohani saudara saudari pemuda gereja Bethel Pentakosta Dok VIII dari Tim KKR tahun 1999 oleh Pdt Indra Karubaba melayani ibadah dan diterjemahkan oleh saudara Jonah Wenda di kampung Lido, Vanimo, PNG.

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Take Back PNG, Give back West Papua, Richest black Christian nation

By all means, not possible unless West Papua is self governance.

Economic prosperity in PNG is not determined by happens in Australia and New Zealand but by what happens in the ASEAN.

Australia cannot be relied on if PNG intends to become the richest black christian nation in the region, let alone the world because it has made itself become a multi cultural country and its economy thrives on multiculturism, and for Australia to support a one race, one religion, richest country in the world immediately automates thick unseen wall of offensive unspoken rejection by Australia, and all those countries that propogate and practise multiculturism.

Same for New Zealand but or both countries put together.

Therefore in order for PNG to become the richest black Christian nation, PNG must by all purpose and intent under the Prime Ministership of Hon, James Marape, the very person who personified the idealic dream…ensure West Papua is free to self governance.

Prime Minister must ensure a Melanesian country exist on the same thing piece of the Melanesian island, of a thousand tribes and lunguage, customs, rituals, chants, songs and dance from Sorong to Samarai is healthy living ornament.

Only then will be PNG have a realistic hope of being the richest black Christian nation in the world. Self Governance of West Papua is the bridge between Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand Phillipines etc…

Yet another white elephant so to speak is the Chinese influence in PNG through the world provision of its money lending.

Indonesia is concern.

China is still upset with Indonesia of the massacre of Chinese people in Makassar, Medan and the island of Lombok. Chinese traders traders of Islam religion have coming to Indonesia from 1400 BC onwards, and their presence on these Javanese resulted in these killings.

Suffice to suggest there is long standing dislike.

China dont like Indonesia per say, and to the extent that feeling is mutual, so Chinese friendship with PNG by virtue of the Exim Banks loan does not sit well with Indonesia, because if PNG asks the Chinese to flex its #SoftPowerapproach in the ASEAN community for West Papua to free and self governance, in order for PNG to attain its status as the richest black Christian nation in the world.

Indonesia prefers it is the one that provides economic reprieve to PNG, but PNG asked China instead.

Prime Minister James Marape will fail to attain his dream of making PNG the richest black nation in the the world if West Papua is not self govern.

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