https://asiapacificreport.nz/2016/05/12/benny-giay-west-papua-the-journey-of-our-nation/ Independent Asia Pacific news and analysis Sat, 21 May 2016 07:43:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://asiapacificreport.nz/2016/05/12/benny-giay-west-papua-the-journey-of-our-nation/#comment-1805 Sat, 21 May 2016 07:43:04 +0000 http://asiapacificreport.nz/?p=13256#comment-1805 Good news that John Anari at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has asked the Economic & Social Council to put the issue of West Papua and General Assembly resolution 1752 on the agenda of the Trusteeship Council. This will enable the Trusteeship Council to ask the ICJ to confirm the trusteeship status of West Papua. A video of the request is available at https://t.co/yyisBPN1FM

]]> https://asiapacificreport.nz/2016/05/12/benny-giay-west-papua-the-journey-of-our-nation/#comment-1753 Fri, 13 May 2016 05:19:45 +0000 http://asiapacificreport.nz/?p=13256#comment-1753 Benny Giay is correct. It is an issue of history, a protocol that for 54 years has illegally kept the United Nations blind & deaf to the suffering of West Papua and the consequences of the UN decision to occupy West Papua with Pakistani and then Indonesian forces.
The US was under the military industrial influence of their Cold-war architect Robert Lovett who was a director of the Freeport company that wanted West Papua’s gold and wealth; while under that influence in 1959 the US designed an illegal plan to use UN Charter article 85 part 1 to occupy West Papua, but prevent the UN from obeying its Charter obligations under article 85 part 2 and sundry. Article 85 is what the trusteeship scheme in this US memo is talking about https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v17/d203

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