{"id":1745,"date":"2016-06-13T14:38:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T14:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2016-06-13T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T15:33:00","slug":"msg-too-politicized-ambassador-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1745","title":{"rendered":"MSG too politicized: Ambassador Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailypost.vu\/news\/msg-too-politicized-ambassador-joy\/article_aee5fd92-b255-514b-a4d5-905518c51029.html#.V147DELM-hk.facebook\">Source:<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"blox-story-frame\" class=\" hnews hentry item article-pad-rail\">\n<div id=\"blox-story-media\" class=\"p402_hide \">\n<div class=\"story-media-item \">\n<div id=\"blox-story-photo-container\" class=\"managed-service\">\n<div id=\"instantGallery\" class=\"instant-gallery-app\">\n<div class=\"instant-gallery\">\n<div class=\"frame\">\n<p class=\"byline\">By Godwin Ligo Ambassador Mickey Roy Joy<a title=\"Ambassador Mickey Roy Joy\" href=\"http:\/\/dailypost.vu\/news\/msg-too-politicized-ambassador-joy\/article_aee5fd92-b255-514b-a4d5-905518c51029.html?mode=image&amp;photo=0\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vertical alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/dailypost.vu\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/0\/d7\/0d742811-e1fe-5e97-825b-81a93e50d869\/575dd5cb4d425.image.jpg?resize=300%2C439\" alt=\"Ambassador Mickey Roy Joy\" width=\"300\" data-height=\"760\" data-width=\"520\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Roy Mickey Joy who is also Dean of Ambassadors for ACP countries in Brussels.<\/p>\n<div class=\"story-media-item \">Posted: <span class=\"updated\" title=\"2016-06-13T08:00:00+11:00\">Monday, June 13, 2016 8:00 am<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"><span class=\"author vcard\"><span class=\"fn\">By Godwin Ligo and Len Garae<\/span><\/span> | <a id=\"comment_aee5fd92-b255-514b-a4d5-905518c51029\" class=\"blox-comment\" href=\"http:\/\/dailypost.vu\/news\/msg-too-politicized-ambassador-joy\/article_aee5fd92-b255-514b-a4d5-905518c51029.html#user-comment-area\"> 0\u00a0comments <\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"blox-story-text\" class=\"entry-content\">\n<div id=\"paging_container\" class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p><strong>The Vanuatu Ambassador<\/strong> to Brussels, Roy Mickey Joy, says the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) is too politicized, has lost its Melanesian integrity and what it stood for.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Joy made this statement to Daily Post when asked if he was still interested in the possibility of becoming the next Director General of the Melanesian Regional Institution, if the upcoming MSG Leaders Meeting in Suva decides to re-advertise the post of the Director General.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I am no longer interested,\u201d was his simple and direct answer.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to elaborate he said, \u201cBecause the MSG has been too politicized by the member leaders and the MSG has tarnished its integrity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot questions being asked abroad by international organizations about the image of the MSG in Melanesia and the Pacific region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joy was the Vanuatu candidate for the MSG top post, when it became vacant.<\/p>\n<p>The Vanuatu Prime Minister, Charlot Salwai, wrote a letter to the MSG who is the Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogovare, advising him of the Vanuatu candidate.<\/p>\n<p>But shortly after, the member countries learnt that the MSG Chair had already appointed Fiji\u2019s candidate to the top post.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Post understands that the Fiji\u2019s candidate arrived in Port Vila to take his post.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the Daily Post also understands that the pending issue of the Director General of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) will be on top of the agenda in the upcoming MSG leaders meeting in Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever the outcome, I am no longer interested because the MSG leaders have politicized the Melanesian Institution and likewise with the MSG Secretariat in Port Vila,\u201d Ambassador Joy told the Daily Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransparency and guiding rules have not been followed when the MSG is supposed to be an independent and impartial and transparent organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts influence is at stake. Organizations in the region and abroad are watching and questioning what\u2019s going on in the MSG and the leadership of the MSG.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a long serving Ambassador abroad, I am calling on the MSG leaders to come to a drawing board as to how far we have come and where we are going,\u201d stated the Vanuatu Ambassador to Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>He said his second mandate as the Vanuatu Ambassador to Brussels ends in March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the offer is made to me by the Vanuatu Government for a third term in Brussels, I will take it because I want to stand for my country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have always been patriotic regionally and abroad about upholding the image of my country Vanuatu abroad,\u201d Mr Joy said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Committee of Ambassadors of the Africa Caribbean Pacific Secretariat in Brussels is meeting next week, to prepare a dossier on West Papua for eventual submission to the Council of Ministers of the European Parliament four months away in October.<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by the Dean of Ambassadors who is the Vanuatu Ambassador to the European Union, Roy Mickey Joy, during his accreditation to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) and World Food Programme (WFP) in Port Vila last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador took the opportunity to assure the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Leingkone, that every workload on West Papua is now on the shoulders of Vanuatu\u2019s special representative to ACP, young and energetic MP Marco Mahe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe at the Embassy in Brussels will work closely with MP Mahe, through the Committee of Ambassadors, to ensure that by the time you (Minister of Foreign Affairs) arrive in Brussels in October, we will have made enough consultations and engagements with the European Parliament and members of ACP to support the dossier on West Papua,\u201d Ambassador Joy said.<\/p>\n<p>He asked the Minister to advise the Government that his team on the ground is fully engaged on the West Papua case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have already briefed the Council of Ministers that the Committee of Ambassadors will be meeting in Brussels on the West Papua case next week,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador replied that as Dean of Ambassadors, he will make sure that the West Papua dossier is supported by member countries of Africa Caribbean Pacific.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" blox-story-tagline service-members\">\n<p>ligo@dailypost.vu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: By Godwin Ligo Ambassador Mickey Roy Joy Ambassador Roy Mickey Joy who is also Dean of Ambassadors for ACP countries in Brussels. Posted: Monday, June 13, 2016 8:00 am By Godwin Ligo and Len Garae | 0\u00a0comments The Vanuatu Ambassador to Brussels, Roy Mickey Joy, says the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) is too politicized, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-melanesian-spearhead-group","category-uncategorized","category-vanuatu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","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=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1746,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}