Petition letter for United Nations

[Australian]

This is the letter which George Bush, John Howard, and General Yudhoyono in Jakarta do not want the United Nations to see. If this letter was presented to the UN then Indonesia would have to remove its military from West Papua, and the UN would then have to allow West Papua to have a vote - like East Timor got in 1999. Do you think the Democratic Party should support this letter?

To the United Nations General Assembly,

We call for the United Nations to now resume its decolonization obligation in relation to West New Guinea by facilitating an act of self determination in compliance with UN GA Resolutions 1514 and 1541, and the "New York Agreement" of August 1962 as noted in UN GA Resolution 1752.

We understand that the Republic of Indonesia being a member of the United Nations did support UN GA Resolutions 1514 and 1541 in December 1960; but in August 1962 signed the "New York Agreement" agreement which both acknowledged West New Guinea's status as a colony and provided for a seven year delay of self-determination.

As colonial control was transfered to Indonesia from the Kingdom of the Netherlands without consent of the people of West New Guinea, the colony's name should have remained on the UN list of Non Self-Governing territories, and Indonesia requested to continue supply of information under Article 73e of the United Nations Charter as the Netherlands had been doing since the 1950s. It is with great regret that reading UN Resolution 2504 of November 1969 we observe no act of self-determination has yet taken place, and that the IMF and World Bank funded transmigration program moving almost a million foreign nationals from Asia to this Pacific island nation now makes Term 18 of the New York Agreement essential to any fair act of self-determination. Specifically "eligibility of all adults, male and female, not foreign nationals to participate in the act of self-determination to be carried out in accordance with international practice" must be assured.

We again ask for the United Nations to end its forty four year moratorium on the decolonization of West New Guinea.

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