Fiji, Sept. 29 -- Vanuatu has raised concerns over alleged human rights violations in West Papua, called for the decolonisation of Kanaky New Caledonia and urged France to accept the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the disputed Matthew and Hunter Islands.
Vanuatu's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Odo Tevi, raised the three issues in his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Tevi said peace and security could not be separated from human rights and called for renewed international attention to the situation of indigenous Papuans in West Papua.
"Vanuatu remains deeply concerned about reports of serious human rights violations affecting indigenous Papuans in West Papua," Tev...