Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs, upon notice, on 19 October 2012:

(1) What is Australia’s position, and what activities has Australia recently undertaken, regarding French Polynesia’s bid to be re-inscribed on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories.

(2) What occurred in relation to this issue at the 2012 Pacific Islands Forum in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

(3) Will Australia oppose international scrutiny of the self determination process at the Cook Islands meeting of the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

(4) Is the Government aware that in September 2012, the Final Communiqué of the 16th Summit of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement affirmed the inalienable right of the people of French Polynesia, Ma’ohi Nui, to self determination in accordance with Chapter XI of the Charter of the United Nations and the United Nations General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV).