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FREE WEST PAPUA CAMPAIGN Oxford, 26th January 2007
Dear friends of West Papua, Apologies for another message so soon after the last one, but we've just received more details about the Indonesian Government Ministers' schedule in London for next Wednesday 31st January.
The Ministers will be meeting Margaret Becket for around one-and-a-half hours over lunch. Presumably
that will be combined with the Business Forum lunch (BP, RioTinto, BAE Systems etc).
There will be three Indonesian Ministers - Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence. The FWPC demonstration will still start from 9.00am, but if you can only spare an hour or so, please join us for the key period between 11.30am and 1.30pm when the Indonesian Ministers and their friends will be meeting in the Foreign Office. That's when the cries of "PAPUA MERDEKA!" need to be loudest! We will finsh the demonstration after the Indonesian Ministers have left the Foreign Office.
The other disgraceful news is that acccording to the Foreign Office, the focus of the UK/Indonesia discussions will be more on wider global issues (such as the so-called "war against terror", climate change etc) given Indonesia's position on the UN Security Council. Bilateral issues such as human rights and West Papua are apparently "unlikely to feature". After all these years I shouldn't still be shocked ...but I am! All the more reason for us to do the job our Government should be doing and tell the Indonesians that their time as rulers of West Papua is up! ----------------------------------------------------------
"Welcome to London" DEMONSTRATION for Indonesian Foreign & Defence Ministers
Opposite Downing Street & the Foreign Office, Whitehall, London SW1.
From 9.00am Wednesday 31st January 2007 Key time: between 11.30am and 1.30pm
PLEASE JOIN US! ----------------------------------------------------------
Papua Merdeka!
Free West Papua!
Richard
Richard Samuelson
Free West Papua Campaign, Oxford, England
www.freewestpapua.org----------------------------------------------------------
FREE WEST PAPUA CAMPAIGN
Quotation No 2: “The strength of the Indonesian position lies in the fact that ... they must know that, even if there are protests about the way they go through the motions of consultation, no other power is likely to conceive it as being in their interests to intervene. . . . I understand that the [Papuan] exiles may find support in the Australian press. But I cannot imagine the US, Japanese, Dutch, or Australian Governments putting at risk their economic and political relations with Indonesia on a matter of principle involving a relatively small number of very primitive people.” Secret internal UK Foreign Office message J. M. Sutherland to D. Murray, Foreign Office South-East Asia Department, April 30, 1968. ---------------------------------------------------------- “Privately, however, we recognise that the people of West Irian have no desire to be ruled by the Indonesians who are of an alien (Javanese) race, and that the process of consultation did not allow a genuinely free choice to be made.” UK Foreign Office secret briefing on West Irian [Papua] prepared for the UK delegation to the UN General Assembly, 10 September 1969]
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