Mr Rashleigh Jackson:Statement Of Support For West Papua

By MR RASHLEIGH JACKSON Former Minister Of Foreign Affairs for the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and Former President of The United Nation Security Council

A Fundamental Right Of Humankind is The Self-Determination Of Peoples Enshrined as a Principle in The Character Of the United Nation. (Art 1.2) This Issue Of Self Determination Was Address By The General Assembly Of the United Nation In Its Resolution 1514(XV) 1960. 

That Resolution Declared Inter Alia That, All Peoples Have The Right to Self Determination; By Virtue Of That Right The Freely Determine Their Political Status and Freely Pursue Their Economic, Social and Culture Development, “As Well As That:

“All Armed Action or Repressive Measures of All Kinds Directed Against Dependent Peoples Shall Cease in Order to Enable Them to Exercises Peacefully and Freely Their Right to Complete Independence and the Integrity of Their National Territory Shall Be Respected,”

It Is a Tragedy of Immense Proportions That in This, The 21^st Century the People of West Papua are Being Denied by Indonesia’s from Exercising Their Right to Self- Determination.

Indonesia’s Attitude Today to West Papua and Its Peoples Is Reminiscent of Its Posture Earlier on East Timor Supported By The International Community Culminated in Independence For East Timor.

It Is Time to Bring to A Successful End The Persistent And Courageous Struggle of the People for Freedom and Independence. They Deserve International Support from the UN, and Other International Organisations, From Global Civil Society, Government and from Non-State Actor, and Indeed From Individual the World Over

The Campaign to Free West Papua is Eminently Worthy of Support, Which I Give wholeheartedly.

THE CAMPAIGN TO FREE WEST PAPUA IS EMINENTLY WORTHY
OF SUPPORT, WHICH I GIVE WHOLEHEARTEDLY.

RASHLEIGH JACKSON
30 NOVEMBER 2012.

Source: www.freewestpapua.org