FUTURE OF NEW GUINEA

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26078, 3 April 1950, Page 7

FUTURE OF NEW GUINEA

JOINT TALKS END IN JAKARTA

“ONLY ISSUE CAUSING FRICTION ”

(Hec. 10 p,m.) JAKARTA, April 1. T fi e issue of Dutch New Guinea was the only one causing friction between the. partners tn the Netherlands-Indo-i?J s i an £aid th® Premier (Dr. Mohammed Hatta) to-day at the close of the first conference of the Union's Mmisters. “The sooner this issue is removed from the agenda, the better s Jr on B® r be the basis of coIh ,er Ha°t 1 e^ eeu the two countries,” The conference appointed a commistbo" 1° P re P a ve for final discussions on the future of Dutch New Guinea at Th 6 . n ’, ee ‘h>B « Union Ministers. The Netherlands agreed that Indonesia Gumea tati ° n a commiasioner in New Dr. Hatta sajd he hoped that future discussions would deal with the coordination of reconstruction of Indonesia and the Netherlands. At the conference Just finished agreement was not reached on every point, but on satisfactory?^ 16 ne S» tia hons had been The Netherlands Minister for Union Affairs (Dr. J. H. van Maarseveen) Said ! ’"e wa S doubt at first whether thi time had come for the first Union conference and whether the heap of difficulties woulfi not prove to be a a ( or ifoitipl discussions. That ™'i b „Z la , d tJrn «dL «?t to be unfounded. The conference had solved Very difficult problems and had contributed to ?Te P ?iH t l. 0 ' 1 . l , f 0 L the ®°'titi6n of others. both “ d ® s m,ght “y the X were satisfied on many points. .■? Join } statement issued by the MinV) 6 . eon *erence, said results sqowea the Union mav grow into a Byihg reality ih international society” It was agreed that the Netherlands would grant Indonesia credit amountdurin« “kS 0 ? 000 Netherlands guilders oui ing 1950 to provide for the anticiof Indonesia in its payments to the Netherlands.