Tag: Global Affairs

Green Defence Spokesperson Keith Locke says Indonesia's navy chief should be told he is not welcome here.

Green Party Foreign Affairs spokesperson Keith Locke has welcomed the Pacific Islands Forum call for dialogue between Indonesia and pro-independence groups over the future of West Papua.

A petition signed by 24 New Zealand MPs is being sent to the Indonesian Embassy today, calling for Indonesian military restraint in West Papua.

This morning a group of Green, Labour and Alliance MPs welcomed John Ondawame, an international representative of the West Papua independence movement, on the steps of Parliament.

Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke believes Indonesian military officials have been pressured to cancel their attendance at two seminars in New Zealand next month.

West Papua leader John Ondawame is arriving in New Zealand on Saturday at a time when his people are suffering in violent clashes with Indonesian authorities.

Yesterday's deportation of a Filipino family was an ominous precedent for thousands of overstayer families who do not qualify for the government's recently announced amnesty, Green MP Keith Locke said today.

A Green Party bill drawn from the member's ballot today will put the heat on the government to put more international treaties to a parliamentary vote.

Green MP Keith Locke wants New Zealand to advocate Indonesia's exclusion from a naval symposium scheduled to take place in Auckland in early November.