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Excerpt from & Statement made by the Netherlands Government
to the Second Chumber of the States-General, October 1952
The position of the Netherlands Government is that the de jure
and de facto sovereignty over Western New Guinea rests with the
Kingdom of the Netherlands. As a member of the United Nations,
the Kingdom has undertaken to carry out the obligation laid down
in Article 73 of the Charter, i.e., to promote the development of
the territory and the well-being of its inhabitants, to accept
this obligation as E sacred trust and to transmit regularly to
the United Nations information on the territory in accordance
with Article 73(e). The Netherlands Government will continue to
do so until the inhabitants of Netherlands New Guinea are able
to decide themselves upon their own future.
The Government believes that a resumption of the negotiations
on Netherlands New Guinea with Indonesia will hardly serve any
useful purpose, since sucia negotiations cannot successfully deal
with the status of the territory on which the respective Governments
have taken a definite position.
Nevertheless, the Netherlands Government is willing in
conversations on the territory to ussist in removing possible
misconceptions and apprehensions on the purt of the Indonesian
Government with respect to the Netherlands nim and purposes in
administering the territory. Similarl: the Government is ready
to examine any suggestion that may contribute to promote the
friendly relations between both countries, without infringing
upon the Netherlands soversignty over Western New Guinea.
The Government does not contemplate to relinquish Western
New Guinea or to limit its sovereignty over the territory by
entering into a mandate or trust agreement.
The position as described above has been taken by the
Netherlands Government after long and cureful consideration of
the various aspects of this question.
New lork
October 31, 1952
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