WNG Assembly
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Votes Against Plebiscite
The West Irian Legislative Assembly, in late August, de cided that there will be no need for the people of West New Guinea to have a plebiscite on self-determination before 1969, as was provided for in the August, 1962, Agreement be tween Indonesia and the Nether lands.
The decision is the result of a three-part resolution passed by the Assembly (no doubt unani mously), that (a), the West Irian people are part of the In donesian people; ( b ), that West Irian is part of the Republic of Indonesia; and (c), that the Regional Government of West Irian is part of the Government of the Republic of Indonesia.
The resolution was signed by the Chairman of the Assembly, E. ]-. Bonay, a Papuan, who is also Governor of the Province.
The Assembly, which is com posed of members nominated by the Djakarta Government, re places the largely elected New Guinea Council which was in augurated in 1961 by the Dutch but which met for the last time in April, 1963, and prudently voted itself out of existence just before the hand-over of WNG to Indonesia.