Tag: Melanesian Spearhead Group
Wenda hopes to get plight of West Papuan people to PIF...
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva
Recognising Indonesia’s sovereignty is one thing.
However, failing to allow West Papuans a seat at regional discussion tables like the Pacific...
Accepting Indonesia into MSG ‘a mistake’, admits Natuman
By Len Garae in Port Vila
Former Vanuatu Prime Minister Joe Natuman says allowing Indonesia -- by former Prime Minister Sato Kilman -- into the...
Kalsakau wants Melanesian staff to work at MSG secretariat
By Hilaire Bule, RNZ Pacific Vanuatu correspondent in Port Vila
Vanuatu's prime minister has stressed any future employment within the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Secretariat...
Wenda calls on Melanesian ‘Good Samaritans’ to help free West Papua
By Len Garae in Port Vila
West Papua independence campaigner Benny Wenda is in Vanuatu to meet Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau's newly-installed government.
Wenda said...
Yamin Kogoya: While West Papuans face an ‘existential threat’ under Indonesia,...
ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya
"We are part of them and they are part of us," declared politician Augustine Rapa, founder and president of the PNG...
Indonesian police arrest Buchtar Tabuni and two Papuan ‘ministers’
Asia Pacific Report
Indonesian police have arrested Buchtar Tabuni, one of West Papua’s most important liberation leaders, along with three other United Liberation Movement for...
60,000 flee as West Papua conflict deepens, poses questions for region
SPECIAL REPORT: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist
Armed conflict in West Papua continues to claim lives, displace tens of thousands of people and cause...
Pacific civil society groups slam New Caledonia ballot as ‘unjust …...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The French government’s decision to press ahead with the third and final referendum vote for self-determination in Kanaky New Caledonia was...
New Caledonia votes to stay with France, but it’s a hollow...
ANALYSIS: By David Robie
“Loyalist” New Caledonians handed France the decisive victory in the third and final referendum on independence it wanted in Sunday’s vote.
But...
Vanuatu’s Shefa province recognises Wenda’s West Papua government
RNZ Pacific
Vanuatu's Shefa province is recognising Benny Wenda as the interim president of a provisional "independent" West Papuan government.
In a country that has historically...
Dan McGarry: It’s how, not who in Melanesian politics
THE VILLAGE EXPLAINER: By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
One of the key characteristics of Melanesian politics is its ability to remain formless and chaotic...
West Papua unhappy over never-ending MSG membership tragedies
ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya in Brisbane
When I ring home to West Papua, my village people often ask me about the rumours that they have...
Nine reasons why Jakarta has branded Papuan armed rebels as ‘terrorists’
By Benny Mawel in Jayapura
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) believes that the Indonesian government has nine motives behind the branding of...
Vanuatu must maintain strong support for West Papua, says Regenvanu
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
Vanuatu needs to continue to maintain its strong support for West Papua by ensuring that the United Liberation Movement...
Melanesian Spearhead Group still backs Kanak decolonisation agenda
By RNZ Pacific
The Melanesian Spearhead Group says it will continue to support the Kanak people in their quest for independence from France despite the...
West Papuan leader who advocated compromise with Jakarta dies
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific
Franz Albert Joku, a former leading West Papuan independence campaigner who changed sides and became an Indonesian government supporter,...
MSG backing Kanak independence ‘on the quiet’, says campaigner
By RNZ Pacific
A leading New Caledonian pro-independence politician, Victor Tutugoro, says governments of Melanesian countries have quietly supported the New Caledonian independence cause.
Tutugoro, second...
Memo NZ: ‘Get on the right side of history’ over West...
Vanuatu says New Zealand should get on the right side of history and support West Papuan self-determination. However, reports James Halpin of Asia Pacific...
Ralph Regenvanu: Pacific regionalism, climate finance and women in politics
Tess Newton Cain talks to Ralph Regenvanu
During a recent trip to Port Vila, Tess Newton Cain caught up with Ralph Regenvanu, Minister for Foreign...
Vanuatu names founding PM’s daughter Lora as Papua envoy
By the Vanuatu Independent
The Vanuatu government has appointed Lora Lini, daughter of founding prime minister Father Walter Lini, as special envoy for West Papua.
United...
Ben Bohane: China? No, let’s face the elephant in the Pacific...
BRIEFING: By Ben Bohane in Port Vila
China ... China ... China ...
All the talk is of increasing Chinese influence in our region. But this...
West Papua one step closer to MSG membership, says Wenda
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says the Melanesian Spearhead Group has made solid progress under the chairmanship of Solomon Islands. Video: EMTV...