{"id":1515,"date":"2015-08-25T08:42:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T08:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2015-08-25T08:42:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T08:42:15","slug":"vanuatu-president-hopes-for-united-stand-with-fiji-on-papua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1515","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu president hopes for united stand with Fiji on Papua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vanuatu&#8217;s president Baldwin Lonsdale says it is the country&#8217;s hope that Vanuatu and Fiji will eventually unite to address the issue of West Papua.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Vanuatu Daily Post reports Mr Lonsdale made the comments as he welcomed Fiji&#8217;s newly appointed High Commissioner to Vanuatu, Esala Teleni.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-cntr \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/assets\/news\/46054\/eight_col_000_Hkg10160401.jpg?1440471860\" alt=\"Vanuatu President, Baldwin Lonsdale. \" width=\"620\" height=\"388\" \/>Vanuatu President, Baldwin Lonsdale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-credit\">Photo:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He says Vanuatu has been very vocal on such sensitive issues, and it hoped that overtime, there would be a joining of hands to address what he described as the inhumane treatment received by the Melanesians in West Papua.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lonsdale says it is a challenge for the Pacific, especially Melanesians, to stand united with the Melanesians of Indonesia&#8217;s Papua region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/international\/pacific-news\/282373\/vanuatu-president-hopes-for-united-stand-with-fiji-on-papua\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/international\/pacific-news\/282373\/vanuatu-president-hopes-for-united-stand-with-fiji-on-papua<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanuatu&#8217;s president Baldwin Lonsdale says it is the country&#8217;s hope that Vanuatu and Fiji will eventually unite to address the issue of West Papua. The Vanuatu Daily Post reports Mr Lonsdale made the comments as he welcomed Fiji&#8217;s newly appointed High Commissioner to Vanuatu, Esala Teleni. Vanuatu President, Baldwin Lonsdale. Photo:\u00a0AFP He says Vanuatu has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vanuatu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","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=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}