VFWPA perkuat solidaritas Melanesia untuk dekolonisasi West Papua

Pertemuan Wantok Melanesia yang diselenggarakan oleh Vanuatu Free West Papua Association (VFWPA) di Vanuatu beberapa waktu lalu - bennywenda facebook page — Pertemuan Wantok Melanesia yang diselenggarakan oleh Vanuatu Free West Papua Association (VFWPA) di Vanuatu beberapa waktu lalu – bennywenda facebook page

Jayapura, Jubi – Pertemuan Wantok Melanesia yang diselenggarakan oleh Vanuatu Free West Papua Association (VFWPA) di Vanuatu beberapa waktu lalu, menegaskan komitmen dukungan terhadap proses dekolonisasi atas anggota-anggota keluarga Melanesia di kawasan negara-negara anggota MSG, khususnya West Papua.

Didukung oleh Asosiasi LSM Kepulauan Pasifik (PIANGO), sekitar 43 perwakilan masyarakat sipil dari Vanuatu, West Papua, Fiji, Kanaky, Papua Nugini, dan Kepulauan Solomon bertemu di Vanuatu untuk memperkuat solidaritas identitas dan kebudayaan Melanesia, demikian dilansir pina.com.fj, Selasa (4/10/2016).

“Tujuan pertemuan ini untuk meninjau dan memperkuat identitas, kebudayaan, bahasa, warisan budaya dan suku serta mendengar perkembangan gerakan solidaritas akar rumput di negara-negara MSG guna mendukung proses Dekolonisasi keluarga besar Melanesia yang masih mengalami kolonisasi, khususnya West Papua,” demikian pernyataan Komunike Murray Centre Senin (3/10) lalu.

Pertemuan dibuka oleh Pastor Alan Nafuki, Ketua VFWPA yang juga menjabat ketua Dewan Gereja Vanuatu, yang menekankan pentingnya peran gereja dalam proses dekolonisasi Vanuatu, yang dari namanya berarti “pulau kebangkitan.”

Rence Sore, Sekretaris Perdana Menteri Solomon menegaskan posisi anggota-anggota MSG seperti Vanuatu, Kepulauan Solomon, dan pemerintah Kanaky tetap teguh mendukung perjuangan rakyat West Papua untuk kemerdekaan.

Hadir juga wakil United Liberation for West Papua (ULMWP), yang menegaskan persatuan rakyat West Papua di dalam dan di luar negeri tetap mendukung ULMWP sebagai pemimpin bagi perjuangan penentuan nasib sendiri.

ULMWP juga mendesak agar MSG menjamin keanggotaan penuh ULMWP untuk selanjutnya mendapat pengakuan internasional terhadap perjuangan pembebasan West Papua.

Pastor Nafuki saat menandatangani Komunike Murray Centre mengatakan pertemuan tiga hari tersebut berlangsung sukses.

“Hasil komunike ini akan diserahkan kepada setiap pemimpin MSG di Port Vila,” ujarnya sambil menyatakan kekecewaannya atas penundaan Pertemuan Tingkat Tinggi MSG untuk mendiskusikan isu West Papua dan status keanggotaanya.

Walau demikian dia mengungkapkan rasa terima kasihnya pada pemerintahan Vanuatu saat ini atas dukungannya pada keanggotaan penuh West Papua di MSG. Dia juga mengungkapkan penghagaan tingginya atas dukungan rakyat Vanuatu kepada rakyat Melanesia West Papua. (*)

October 6, 2016 0

Nafuki believes ULMWP membership in MSG will be made in September

The Chairman of the Vanuatu Committee for Free West Papua, Pastor Allen Nafuki, has said he strongly believes that the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) meeting to be held in Port Vila in September, will grant West Papua full membership into the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

“It was right here in Port Vila, that Vanuatu played an important role in hosting of the reconciliation ceremonies between all West Papua Leaders, and the formation, and the signing of the agreement of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) between all the West Papua Leaders,” Pastor Nafuki told the Daily Post.

He went on to state that: “As a Pastor in a Christian church and occupying the Chair of the Free West Papua Association in Vanuatu, I also strongly believe that it is God’s plan that the West Papua admission as a full member to the MSG will take place here in Vanuatu.

“In this regard I am calling on every Christian Leaders in all Christian denominations and all Christians across Vanuatu to rise in Pray in one accord for this dream for West Papua brothers and sisters to be fully realized in September 2016 here in Port Vila, Vanuatu,” he appealed.

“After the news was received from Honiara that West Papua full admission into the MSG did not happen, I gave a lot of thought about why the MSG Leaders had once again did not grant full admission to the Melanesian brothers and sisters in West Papua full MSG membership.

“What came across my mind is that we humans make plans but God’s will according to His plan and time is what we have to seek and accept.

“So, as of today as I am talking to the Daily Post, I wish to state that my Committee is reviewing plans and preparing an even stronger application which will be submitted in good time ahead of the MSG Leaders’ Summit here in Port Vila in September, 2016,” said Pastor Nafuki.

“Let me reiterate my call on all Christian Leaders and all Christians across Vanuatu to place West Papua Melanesian brothers and sisters for a full membership into the MSG, in the hands of the Almighty God to grant this request in the MSG Leaders’ Summit in September 2016,” Nafuki reiterated.

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August 28, 2016 0

Nafuki believes ULMWP membership in MSG will be made in Septembe

DailyPost.vu, By Godwin Ligo | Posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 8:00 am

“What came across my mind is that we humans make plans but God’s will according to His plan and time is what we have to seek and accept.

“So, as of today as I am talking to the Daily Post, I wish to state that my Committee is reviewing plans and preparing an even stronger application which will be submitted in good time ahead of the MSG Leaders’ Summit here in Port Vila in September, 2016,”

said Pastor Nafuki.

“Let me reiterate my call on all Christian Leaders and all Christians across Vanuatu to place West Papua Melanesian brothers and sisters for a full membership into the MSG, in the hands of the Almighty God to grant this request in the MSG Leaders’ Summit in September 2016,”

Nafuki reiterated.

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July 20, 2016 0