Indonesia Criticises Vanuatu for Including West Papuan Inclusion

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Indonesia has criticized Vanuatu for "sneaking" a West Papuan leader and the chairman of the United Liberal Movement for the people of West Papua into its delegation to a meeting with U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.

But Vanuatu's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ralph Regenvanu has dismissed the accusations, saying Vanuatu has always maintained its support for West Papua self-determination.  READ ON and SEE ALSO.

A number of other Pacific Governments support West Papua. See also West Papua seeks international recognition.

Background

The Papua conflict is an ongoing conflict between the Indonesian government and portions of the indigenous populations of Western New Guinea (Papua) in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua on the island of New Guinea in which the Indonesian government has been accused^{[by whom?]} of conducting a genocidal campaign against the indigenous inhabitants. Since the withdrawal of the Dutch colonial administration from the Netherlands New Guinea in 1962,^[9] the implementation of Indonesian governance in 1963 and the formal absorption of Papua into Indonesia in 1969, the Free Papua Movement (Indonesian: Organisasi Papua Merdeka, (OPM), a militant Papuan-independence organisation, has conducted a low-key guerrilla war against Indonesia through the targeting of its military and police, and engages in the kidnapping of Papuan Indonesian settlers and foreigners.^{[10]  -- Wikipedia}