{"id":1584,"date":"2015-10-01T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T12:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2015-10-01T12:42:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T12:42:34","slug":"special-envoy-hopes-for-positive-outcome-on-west-papua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1584","title":{"rendered":"Special envoy hopes for positive outcome on West Papua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly appointed Solomon Islands Special Envoy on West Papua, Matthew Cooper Wale says he is hopeful for a positive outcome after a leader\u2019s retreat today in Port Moresby.<\/p>\n<p>The retreat is part of the 46th Pacific Islands Forum Meeting held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>SIBC\u2019s Gina Maka\u2019a reports Mr. Wale made the comments in a mediaconference late yesterday, saying it is time Pacific leaders deal with the West Papuan issue in a responsible way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeaking to journalists in a press conference last night Mr. Wale said they recognise that the issue faced by the people of West Papua is not easy to deal with, but they see it is the right time for Pacific Islands to deal with it because leaders have a moral obligation to deal with such issues in a responsible way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SIBC News understands, a Leaders Retreat will be held for leaders to the 46th Pacific Islands Forum Meeting in Port Moresby today.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sibconline.com.sb\/special-envoy-hopes-for-positive-outcome-on-west-papua\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sibconline.com.sb\/special-envoy-hopes-for-positive-outcome-on-west-papua\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly appointed Solomon Islands Special Envoy on West Papua, Matthew Cooper Wale says he is hopeful for a positive outcome after a leader\u2019s retreat today in Port Moresby. The retreat is part of the 46th Pacific Islands Forum Meeting held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. SIBC\u2019s Gina Maka\u2019a reports Mr. Wale made the comments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solomon-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","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=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}