THE WEST PAPUA DECLARATION
Launch in London on 1st December 2008
WE the undersigned recognise the inalienable right of the indigenous people of West Papua to self-determination, which was violated in the 1969 “Act of Free Choice”,
AND call upon our governments through the United Nations to put in place arrangements for the free exercise of that right
SO that the indigenous people of West Papua can decide democratically their own future in accordance with international standards of human rights, the principles of international law and the Charter of the United Nations.
International Parliamentarians for West Papua [IPWP]
Hon. Andrew Smith MP Labour (UK)
Benny Wenda (West Papua)
Lord Harries (UK)
Rt Hon. John Battle MP (UK)
Caroline Lucas MEP Green Party (UK)
Lembik Opik MP Lib Dem (UK)
Jeremy Corbyn MP Labour (UK)
David Amess MP Conservative (UK)
Ralph Regenvanu Independent (Vanuatu)
Martin Caton MP Labour (UK)
Powes Parkop MP Independent MP and Governor of Port Moresby,
Papua New Guinea
Abel David MP leader of current opposition party,
'Shepherds Alliance' (Vanuatu)
Chief Reuben Ishmael VP
'Shepherds Alliance' (Vanuatu)
Moana Carcasses Kalosil MP
Green Party (Vanuatu)
Lord Hylton (UK)
Eva-Britt Svensson MEP (Sweden)
Leke van den Burg MEP
Social Democrat (The Netherlands)
Martin Salter MP Labour (UK)
Dr Phyllis Starkey MP Labour (UK)
Dr Alan Whitehead MP Labour (UK)
Michael Foster MP Labour (UK)
Betty Williams MP Labour (UK)
Julie Morgan MP Labour (UK)
Senator Bob Brown
leader of The Australian Greens (Australia)
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young
The Australian Greens (Australia)
Jeanette Fitzsimons
leader of the Green Party (New Zealand)
Keith Locke foreign affairs spokesman
the Green Party (New Zealand)
Catherine Delahunty MP
Green Party (New Zealand)
Dr Russell Norman MP
Co-Leader Green Party (New Zealand)
Keith Vaz MP Labour (UK)
Tom Clarke MP Labour (UK)
David Lepper MP Labour (UK)
Peter Bottomley MP Conservative (UK)
Bill Wiggin MP Conservative (UK)
John Bercow MP Conservative (UK)
Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone Conservative (UK)
Edward Vaizey MP Conservative (UK)
Tony Baldry MP Conservative (UK)
Lord Kilclooney Ulster Unionist Party (UK)
Lord Avebury Lib Dem (UK)
Dr Evan Harris MP Lib Dem (UK)
Baroness Northover Lib Dem (UK)
Senator Edward 'Ted' Kennedy Democrat Party (US)
Ondrej Liska MP Minister of Education (Czech Republic)
Katerina Jacques MP (Czech Republic)
Přemysl Rabas MP (Czech Republic)
Alex Sobel MP Labour (UK)
Pascal Prince MP Deputy of the Jurassian Parliament (Switzerland)
Greg Barber MP Green (Australia)
NEWS
STATEMENT
As members of International Parliamentarians for West Papua we voice our deep concern at the recent increase in military activity in West Papua, including the reported sweeping operations in the Puncak Jaya region.
We are also concerned at the increase in numbers of political prisoners being held in West Papua and the reports of systematic torture in the prisons.
We are particularly concerned about the three year sentence just given to Buchtar Tabuni and about the 15 people on trial in Nabire following demonstrations there.
We call on the government of Indonesia to immediately withdraw its military from West Papua, release political prisoners and investigate reports of torture in its prisons and to allow access to West Papua for the International Red Cross and foreign journalists.
Hon. Andrew Smith MP UK
Lord Harries UK
Caroline Lucas MEP UK
Dr Evan Harris MP UK
Lembik Opik MP UK
Ralph Regenvanu Independent Vanuatu
Abel David MP Vanuatu
David Amess MP UK
Moana Carcasses Kalosil MP Vanuatu
Clare Short MP UK
Lord Hylton UK
Catherine Delahunty MP New Zeland
Secretariat
International Parliamentarian for West Papua UK
Please download the PDF document here for more information.
If you would like to support this additional statement then please email us at humanrights@ipwp.org