interview Sekjen PBB Ban Ki Moon and Jurnalis

Sekjen UN Ban Ki-Moon/Pasific Forum

Extract from Ban ki moon press conference, Pacific Islands Forum, 7 September 2011

Question:  [unclear] With regards to human rights - for more than forty two years, there’s a struggle in West Papua as people seeking their government in the province of West Papua

What is the United Nations stand on that?

BKM:  This issue should also be discussed at the Decolonisation Committee of the United Nations General Assembly
And when it comes again, whether you are an independent state or a non-self-governing territory or whatever, the human rights is inalienable and a fundamental principle of the United Nations.
We will do all to ensure that people in West Papua, their human rights will be respected.

Does he support United Nation's Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's statement regarding human rights in West Papua that "we will do all to ensure that people in West Papua, their human rights will be respected"?


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Question: Does a human rights fact-finding mission has be dispatched  to West Papua at some time?

BKM:  That is the same answer [to a previous question on Fiji] that should be discussed at the Human Rights Council amongst the member states.
Normally the Secretary General acts on the basis of a mandate given by inter-governmental bodies."amatus"