The Melanesian Spearhead Group’s Leaders Summit scheduled to be hosted in Port Vila from October 3-4 2016 has been postponed to December.
The MSG Secretariat has verbally confirmed this to 96 Buzz FM news but gave no reasons for this postponement, advising it will issue a press release in due course to clarify the reasons for this postponement. This week, the Vanuatu West Papua Association hosted the Wantok Summit which brought together Free West Papua Civil Society Organisation support groups within Melanesia, including the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP).
The Wantok Summit was planned months ago to be hosted in Port Vila in parallel with the MSG Leaders Summit, which unfortunately has been deferred to the end of 2016.
Daily Post understands that one of the main issues to host the Wantok Summit is to convince the MSG Leaders on the admission of ULMWP as a full member of MSG.
Members of the ULMWP and other Free West Papua Civil Society Organisation support groups will leave the country this weekend.
glenda@dailypost.vu By Glenda Willie Sep 30, 2016 0