28 September 2017
New York, United States
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| Rafael Ramírez Carreño, the Chairman of the United Nations Decolonization Committee |
After claiming that a campaigner with the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has delivered a petition to the United Nations Decolonization Committee, the Committee hit back saying that no petition was received.
Ambassador Rafael Ramírez Carreño, the Chairman of the United Nations Decolonization Committee said:
"I have never received anything nor anybody regarding the issue of West Papua."
The statement comes a day after the ABC and The Guardian reported that Benny Wenda, an ULMWP executive had submitted a petition calling for a referendum for Papua to the Committee.
The Committee has never received any documents pertaining to West Papua. West Papua is not on the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories of the Committee. West Papua is a province of Indonesia and the United Nations have recognized that since many decades ago.
Ambassador Carreño strongly disapproved and is offended by Benny Wenda and those individuals and parties who have abused and manipulated his name for their own Propaganda.
An Opposition MP and former Prime Minister of Vanuatu, Sato Kilman strongly warned the Government and accused it of being inconsistent on foreign policy.
"The current Vanuatu government of PM Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas has lost its credibility with the international community and its own public."
Sato Kilman further said that the PM's stubborn focus on West Papua issue have exposed Tabimasmas' hypocrisy.
On the one hand he portrays himself as the champion of "colonized nations and people".
However he failed to take up the issue of the sovereignty of the Aboriginal people of Australia, Taiwan, and closer to home, the Isatabu Freedom Movement in Solomon Islands.
The PM of Vanuatu is highly dependent on Australia and China for its survival.
The Vanuatu government depends on Australia's and China's checkbooks to keep its government afloat.
By supporting China, instead of Taiwan as was in the past, Vanuatu is ensuring that the steady flow of Chinese yuan keeps flowing into Tabimasmas' wallet.
The cold calculation of the PM trumped whatever principles he had on the issue of "Melanesian brotherhood."
It is widely reported that PM Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas has faced corruption scandals, defections, mutiny, serious health-scare and many votes of no confidence.
Benny Wenda, wanted for the involvement in the 2000 fatal attacks and murder of West Papuans Petrus Epaa and Markus Padama in Abepura, Papua. He escaped to PNG and then to the United Kingdom where he now lives.
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| Benny Wenda ordered the murders of police and innocent civilians. Top left: Wenda's armed group. Top right and above right: the remains of police officer and a charred body of a civilian. Above left: burned police station in West Papua |
In their desperate move to save their political career, all is fair in politics and principle for Tabimasmas and Benny Wenda.
Nothing can stand in Tabimasmas' and Benny Wenda way, not even principles nor the law.
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