West Papua Seeking Permanent Membership Of Pacific Forum

Returning to the Fold – West Papua Seeking Permanent Membership Status with Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)

The Federal Republic of West Papua

Jayapura-West Papua

July 14, 2013

Honorable Tuiloma Neroni Slade

Secretary General Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat Suva, Fiji

My dear Mr. Slade:

We are more than privileged to have been given this opportunity by officially writing to you to advise that the Exeutive Government of the Federal Republic of West Papua, an Embryo State being formed on the 19th October, 2011 hereby seek leave from the member countries of the Pacific Island to consider granting us an Observer or Permanent Membership Status.

The Government of the embryo state and the 2.5 million people of West Papua are more than honoured with the highest esteem and gratitude by the overwhelimg sympathy and support from the South Pacific region and in particular our Melanesian brothers’ Countries. It is our highest honour as we very much respect and value your kind gesture in supporting our cause. It is also our firm believe that our return to the Melanesian fold and the Pacific region in general is not a mistake or co- incident in fact we originally belong to Melanesia and the Pacific Region. It was never our choice or making for West Papua to be integrated into the Republic of Indonesia, rather it was beause of the foreign interest that we were forced into Indonesia for the past 51 years. We have fought the guerilla warfare against the Indonesian Military Supremacy and have suffered in all forms of horrendous crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Indonesian Armed Forces. But yet we have withstood our ground and defended our inheritance up to this day.As a result we have endured the suffering and oppression since the annexation by Indonesia and thank God we have been able to sustain up until today. The human rights abuses and sufferings in Papua will only come to an end when West Papua gains its full independence.

Upon the Declaration of the Federal Republic of West Papua by our President Forkorus Yaboisembut on 19th October 2011, we are now seeking for the World Support and Recognition of the Embryo State that had been established during the Third National Peoples Congress. The campaign has been robust and had spread like wild fire throughout the world in the last 2 years and even it is now an agenda on President Obama’s Desk.

We now want to take this campaign to our brothers of Pacific countries and the rest of the Pacific region.

It has been our dream and long desire to return to Melanesia and Pacific as it used to be in our ancestral days prior to the western civilization. We also wish to remind our Pacific Brothers that during the Netherlands Colonial Era we were one of the founding members of former South Pacific Commission (SPC) incepted in 1950 which gave birth to the present Pacific Island Forum.

Thanking you all in advance and “Long Live Pacific.”

May God Bless you all!

Sincerely

Forkorus Yaboisembut

President

ENDS

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