Corso launches Tree Pacific’
PA Wellington Corso is launching an appeal this week to support land rights for Pacific people, independence for New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Irian Jaya (Western Papua), and the establishment of a nuclearfree Pacific. Corso’s chairman, Mr John L’Estrange, said that the Free Pacific appeal was being made to alert people to the “real problems” faced by Pacific people. He said Corso would support people who were opposed to both nuclear weapons testing and nuclear waste dumping in the region. ■ > , -; “Corso is also committed
to the end of colonialism in the Pacific and supports groups in New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Irian Java who are working for independence,” he said. The organisation also intended bringing to New Zealand the co-ordinator of the Vanuatu Pacific Community Centre, Mr Rex Rumakiek, to highlight some of these issues. Mr Rumakiek was originally from Irian Jaya and was involved in the Free Papua Movement opposed to theMndonesian take-over of the area. Mr Rumakiek’s community centre acts as a‘centre for Pacific independence movements.
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