Rule By

Nng: Self

1970

The Netherlands New Guii Council has decided that its mt bers should postpone discuss* on a date for self-determinat for another two years.

THE Council has suggested members should consider \ technical implications and the ac date of self-determination every j years until 1970—by which time I should have decided their ( future.

The Council wants the couni future decided by 1970 at the latest.

These are the main points resul from a special session of the O cil in Hollandia on February 16.

Council had met to discuss determination under the terms of invitation made bv Mr. Theo Bo the Council’s inauguration in I last year, that it should decide \ in a year how self-determim could be achieved and at what < The February meeting also dec in its draft resolution (which wi] submitted to the Dutch Govt.): • Internationally it was of no portance who administers the 1 tory prior to 1970, provided that right of self-determination is gm teed. However, Indonesia is ruled because it would not leave Papuan people to decide for “in freedom”. • To avoid delay in develc the territory, preference is give continuation of administration The Netherlands rather than b> other power or the United Nati< • Although no need is fell inter-nationalisation, the wish to guard the right of self-determin could lead to a call for some of international administration the interim period. • It is of utmost importance the United Nations send a con sion to the territory under the t of the UN decolonisation resol (of December 14, 1960).

O Papuan missions should be to the Afro-Asian countries, in ing Indonesia.

It also recommends the acc( tion of the ten-year develop plan.