NEW GUINEA PROPOSAL
Adoption By Assembly (N Z P A -Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, Sept. 22. The United Nations General Assembly last night adopted a Dutch-Indonesian resolution authorising the United Nations to implement the West New Guinea agreement concluded on August 15. The agreement gives the United Nations an interim administrative role prior to the transfer of authority from the Ne’herlands to Indonesia next May 1. A United Nations security force of 1000 Pakistani troops will help the Papuan police keep law and order in the territory. Russia was among the countries which voted for the resolution. Eighty-nine members voted for the resolution, and none opposed it. There were 14 abstentions, most of them by former French African States, which last year led an unsuccessful initiative to give the United Nations a role in West New Guinea that would ensure that the Papuans were able to exercise self-deter-mmation.
It has been argued that the Papuans are a negroid race which has no ethnic affinity with the Indonesians, and this argument was viewed with sympathy in some circles, including some African circles.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29936, 25 September 1962, Page 18
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