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Int'l Parliamentarians for West Papua: New Chapter
05 November 2009
MEDIA STATEMENT
In light of
the Launching of the International Parliamentarians for West
Papua in London on 15th October 2008, of which I am a
founding member, I am pleased to announce the launching of
the International Parliamentarians for West Papua – “The
PNG Chapter” on Saturday 07th of November 2009 at the
University of Papua New Guinea Botanical Garden.
The
International Parliamentarians for West Papua is a concern
international Parliamentarian group of legislators who
simply want the people of West Papua to exercise the
fundamental right to self determination just like all other
people of the world because that right belongs to the people
of the world.
The main purpose of the International
Parliamentarians for West Papua is to advocate for and
ensure that our people of West Papua exercise their
fundamental rights to self determination, a right recognized
globally and enshrined in the United Nations founding
Charter and in the preamble of the United Nation Human
Rights Charter.
The right to self determination is
recognized globally as a fundamental right to be exercise by
people of the world. It is also recognized as a preliminary
right that must be exercised and enjoyed before one can
benefit or achieve other rights such as social, economic or
political rights. The right to self determination is
therefore a prerequisite or fundamental to all other rights
and history shows that the people of West Papua did not
exercise that right to date.
The launching of the PNG
Chapter is complementary to the efforts of the International
Parliamentarians in Europe and USA in recognizing the right
of the West Papuan people to self determination, that has
been denied from them through the 1969 Act of Free
Choice.
The launching of the International
Parliamentarians for West Papua – PNG Chapter is a show of
support and commitment to the International Community and to
the people of West Papua that we stand in solidarity to
advocate for self determination for West Papua and by doing
so we elevate the plight of the West Papuan People to a new
level and hopefully in the United Nations.
The
official launching of the International Parliamentarians for
West Papua “PNG Chapter” will at the University of Papua
New Guinea Botanical Gardens on Saturday 7th November 2009
at 1
o’clock.
ENDS
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