http://pacificpolicy.org/blog/2013/06/14/west-papua-advocacy-dialogue-engagement/ Thinking for ourselves Wed, 14 Aug 2013 06:30:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.5 http://pacificpolicy.org/blog/2013/06/14/west-papua-advocacy-dialogue-engagement/comment-page-1/#comment-3420 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:46:23 +0000 http://www.pacificpolicy.org/?p=3785#comment-3420 [...] On the eve of the MSG Leaders’ Summit, the Pacific Institute for Public Policy argues that, “it’s time to talk frankly and openly about West Papua’s future. Melanesian leaders face a question integral to their collective identity: How and whether West Papua should be given membership in the sub-regional group…” [read more in this PiPP Editorial]. [...]

]]> http://pacificpolicy.org/blog/2013/06/14/west-papua-advocacy-dialogue-engagement/comment-page-1/#comment-3294 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:12:17 +0000 http://www.pacificpolicy.org/?p=3785#comment-3294 The legal reality is that the United Nations made West Papua a trust territory and the current Indonesian administration is in violation of article 76 of the UN Charter which the General Assembly made UN members subject to when it made resolution 1752 (XVII).
The UN members including the Pacific UN members have a legal obligation to remind the Secretary General that he needs to add General Assembly resolution 1752 (XVII) to the agenda of the Trusteeship Council, which the Secretary General was required but failed to do in 1962.

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