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| Doc: Special/ Minister of Foreign Affairs (Menlu) Vanuatu Jotham Napat (left) and ULMWP Interim President Benny Wenda. (Pace Honest talk) |
Mapians|KAWATMAPIATV.ID – Vanuatu's foreign minister, Jotham Napat, said he was considering visiting Suva-Fiji, Honiara-Solomon Islands, and Port Moresby-Papua New Guinea to personally get a 'yes or no' answer on whether their government supports full membership of the United Liberation Movement. of West Papua (ULMWP) of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) before the MSG Summit in Port Vila later this year.
Quoting the Minister wants 'yes or no' answer to ULMWP Application News daily post.vu who reported that the Minister had spoken about his intentions at the Vanuatu Foreign Ministry Office, when a seven strong lobbying team led by ULMWP Interim President, Benny Wenda, asked for his support, this week.
The Vanuatu Foreign Minister said he had met a senior official from the MSG Secretariat to brief him on the process towards an Application by the United Liberation Movement for West Papua for full membership of the MSG.
Following an answer to his question from the MSG Secretariat, the Vanuatu Foreign Minister said he plans to personally visit all MSG member countries to make each of them to explain whether they support the ULMWP Application for MSG full membership in the next MSG Summit in Port Vila.
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| Doc : Spesial/Benny Wenda President of the UMLWP when meeting with the Director General of MSG Leonard Louma at Port Villa Vanuatu recently. (Honest pace of speech/ MSG Secretariat) |
The Chair of the Lobbying Team, Benny Wenda, briefed the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vanuatu about the suffering of its people and the killing of around 500,000 Melanesians in the last half century. He asked how the country's military could engage in abusing human astronomy while being allowed to sit as an associate member of Melanesian political organizations.
The former Prime Minister of Vanuatu, Joe Natuman, who, with the involvement of the Pacific Council of Churches and the Malvatumauri Council of Chiefs, witnessed the birth of the first West Papuan 'boy' called the United Liberation Movement of West Papua in 2014.
Natuman reiterated the late's emphasis The Prime Minister, Pastor Walter Lini, who said Vanuatu would not be completely free until West Papua and Kanaky in New Caledonia were free from colonialism.
"Based on international law, Indonesia's occupation of West Papua is illegal, so it has no right to control our country. The occupiers have illegally banned international media, Amnesty International and the Red Cross from entering our country for the last 57 years,” he added.
The Interim President said their prayer that they would be able to sit face to face to talk with the Indonesian government.
Internationally, Wenda said 83 countries had agreed for Indonesia to allow the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner to visit West Papua. Jakarta turned a blind eye to the request.
“And here they come, the Indonesians pretend that they are innocent, talking to the Melanesians at the MSG, while the ULMWP is left out in the cold,” he said.
“ULMWP under my leadership – we are ready to engage with the Indonesian government. In 2019, I signaled to Jakarta that I was ready to meet the President of Indonesia. I'm still waiting," he added.
It is his prayer that through the MSG Summit, they will be able to speak out for their God-given rights to govern themselves. (*)
(KMT/Admin)
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