Ties with Indonesia may be cut if no-confidence move succeeds
By Ricky Binihi
PORT VILA, Vanuatu (Vanuatu Daily Post, Dec.
5, 2012) – Vanuatu’s next government, if a motion of no-confidence
against PM Sato Kilman succeeds in Parliament, will work more with the
people of West Papua and Vanuatu could cut diplomatic relations with
Indonesia.
That was the message the dignitaries and
sympathizers of the West Papua cause heard when the Morning Star flag
was hoisted at Vete’s Headquarters in Port Vila to commemorate West
Papua’s Independence since 1961.
Former Head of State Mr. Kalkot Matas
Kelekele, Melanesian Progressive Party (MPP) President and former
Vanuatu Prime Minister, Barak Sope, the President of the Graon and
Jastis Party (GJP) MP Ralph Regenvanu, former Foreign Affairs Ministers
MP Joe Natuman, MPP Malekula MP Sai Esmon, Dr. John Ondawame, West Papua
outspoken leader Andy Ayamiseba, and members of the Vete hierarchy were
all present on December 1.
Former President Matas Kelekele who
reportedly told the President of Indonesia he still prayed for the
Melanesians in West Papua said "colonization by the Indonesians of West
Papua is a sin."
Former Vanuatu PM Sope said the MPP does not
recognize West Papua as part of Indonesia and it will never do so and
that "the struggle for West Papua must continue because victory is
certain."
Former Foreign Affairs Minister Natuman said
the relations between Jakarta and Port Vila must be "terminated"
because he alleged that in the past two years Indonesia has provided
funds to individual Vanuatu politicians and not the Nation.
Four government backbenchers moved to join
the Opposition that Friday so when GJP President MP Regenvanu took the
stage on Sunday he said the government that will be elected on December
10 will ensure that West Papua becomes a priority.
Members at the ceremony that was organized
by former MP David Abel and Chairman of the Organising Committee, Mr.
Alul Ravue heard that after the 51 years of struggle 600,000 West
Papuans have died and 7 million Indonesians have migrated to West Papua
and have diluted the cause for Independence of West Papua is coming.
Mr. Shem Rarua who has been mandated by the
West Papuan Council to speak at the occasion announced that they have
now decided to register West Papua cause to the International Court of
Justice in Hague and they are confident Vanuatu’s brothers and sisters
of West Papua will be free.
Source: http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/
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