{"id":1102,"date":"2015-06-09T00:49:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T00:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2015-06-09T00:57:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T00:57:16","slug":"geopolitical-storm-coming-to-a-head-in-msg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1102","title":{"rendered":"Geopolitical storm coming to a head in MSG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A geopolitical storm is coming to a head in the Melanesian Spearhead Group as the Pacific islands sub-regional organisation considers a membership bid by West Papuans of Indonesia<\/p>\n<p>From Radio New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>The United Liberation Movement for West Papua was formed last year when Vanuatu hosted a reunification summit for West Papuan representative groups.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>The Hon.MP for West Maikra in the Solomon Islands, Derrick Manauri says: &#8220;It is not a sovereignty issue &#8211; it is a solidarity issue, of solidarity of Melanesian states, Melanesian territories in Melanesia. So the precedent is already set. That West Papua as a Melanesian state should be admitted as a member of MSG and not Indonesia. It&#8217;s not Melanesia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Manuari is urging MSG leaders when they meet for their annual summit in Honiara later this month to listen to remember the reason the group was originally founded &#8211; to help the decolonisation of Melanesian peoples.<\/p>\n<p><em>A geopolitical storm is coming to a head in the Melanesian Spearhead Group as the Pacific islands sub-regional organisation considers a membership bid by West Papuans of Indonesia.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/international\/programmes\/datelinepacific\/audio\/201757276\/geopolitical-storm-coming-to-a-head-in-msg\">Geopolitical storm coming to a head in MSG | Dateline Pacific, 5:04 am on 8 June 2015 | Radio New Zealand<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A geopolitical storm is coming to a head in the Melanesian Spearhead Group as the Pacific islands sub-regional organisation considers a membership bid by West Papuans of Indonesia From Radio New Zealand The United Liberation Movement for West Papua was formed last year when Vanuatu hosted a reunification summit for West Papuan representative groups. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-melanesian-spearhead-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}