UNPO-kongres 2010

’n Mosie waarin plaasmoorde in Suid-Afrika as ernstige menseregteskendings veroordeel is en 'n ondersoek na die verskillende selfbeskikkingsoplossings vir Suid-Afrika gevra is, is deur die UNPO se Algemene Kongres in Rome aanvaar. Die mosie is deur dr. Pieter Mulder, VF Plus-leier, voorgestel en gemotiveer. Volgens dr. Mulder is daar ’n belangrike positiewe beeldverskuiwing in die buiteland ten opsigte van Afrikaners.

Dr. Mulder is ook tydens die kongres op UNPO se dagbestuur of presidensie verkies. Die nuwe UNPO-president is mnr. Ngawang Choepel van Tibet. 

Dr. Mulder en mnr. André Fourie, voorsitter van die VF Plus se Buitelandse Verhoudinge komitee, het die kongres bygewoon. Die kongres is in Rome in die Italiaanse Senaat gehou. Senator Emma Bonino, vise-president van die Italiaanse senaat en voorheen ’n Italiaanse minster asook senator Marco Perduca van die Italiaanse Demokratiese Party, het as gashere opgetree.

“Die bywoning van die kongres en die stel van die mosie is deel van die VF Plus se internasionalisering van die Suid-Afrikaanse situasie,” volgens dr. Mulder.  “Dit help nie om te wag totdat dit te laat is en jou dan op die wêreld vir hulp te beroep nie. Die wêreld behoort deurlopend op hoogte gehou te word oor prestasies maar ook oor menseregtevergrype in Suid-Afrika,” het dr. Mulder gesê.

Die kongres het verder die posisie van minderhede binne ’n demokrasie behandel. Politieke oplossings soos magsdeling, federalisme en selfbeskikking is bespreek. In ’n algemene mosie wat deur die kongres aanvaar is, is die belangrikheid van die behoud van ’n eie taal en kultuur in die beskerming van minderhede beklemtoon.

UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation) is in 1991 gestig as ’n organisasie wat hom op internasionale vlak vir minderhede en inheemse volke beywer. Van die stigterslede was Tibet, Taiwan, Estonia en Georgië. Tans het UNPO 54 lede wat meer as 200 miljoen mense regoor die wêreld verteenwoordig.

Meer inligting kan verkry word by UNPO se webblad by: www.unpo.org of die VF Plus se webblad by: www.vf.co.za

Opsomming van ledemosies aanvaar tydens UNPO se 10de Algemene Kongres 

Member Resolutions Summary

Abkhazia

Calls on the Georgian authorities to stop the blockade against Abkhazia, lift sanctions, and put a halt to widespread infringements on basic principles of freedom by abolishing restrictive legislation;

Requests all governments especially the Government of Turkey to take measures to provide safe, secure and direct travel of their citizens to Abkhazia;

Afrikaner

Condemn the lack of proper recognition and accommodation of the Afrikaner people in line with modern international best practice whether in line with federal or other self-determination measures on the political, economical and cultural terrain;

Request the UN General Secretary to initiate an investigation and dispatch a fact finding mission to South Africa in order to look into the issue of self-determination in line with modern international best practice whether in line with federal or other self-determination measures and the serious human rights violations as represented in the  murders of more than  3000 Afrikaner farmers and fam workers since the negotiations started for a free and fair democracy in 1991.

Cabinda

Condemns all human rights abuses committed in the Territory of Cabinda by the Government of the Republic of Angola and its proxies;

Calls on the Government of the Republic of Angola to respect the Cabindan peoples’ human rights and their right to political and economic self-determination,

Calls on the conflicting parties and in particular the Government of the Republic of Angola to urgently commit themselves to a peaceful solution to the conflict currently taking place in Cabinda through negotiation, mediation, plebiscite or arbitration,

Calls upon the companies operating in Cabinda to respect the human rights and the right to self-determination of the people of Cabinda, including the right to manage and control natural resources on their land and cease immediately the use of mercenaries,

Calls on the Republic of Angola to cease kidnapping Cabindan politicians and refugees in foreign countries, Congo-Kinshasa and Congo-Brazzaville, and to liberate them,

Calls on the conflicting parties and in particular the Government of the Republic of Angola to urgently commit themselves to a peaceful solution to the conflict currently taking place in Cabinda.

Mapuche

Condemn all human rights abuses committed in the Mapuche Territory by the governments of Chile and Argentina.

Calls on Chile to end the criminalization, violent repression and persecution of Mapuche communities, minors, leaders and activists in Chile;

Request the UN General Secretary and the UN Special Rapporteur for Indigenous Peoples to initiate an investigation and dispatch a fact finding mission to Chile, in particular to traditional Mapuche territories in order to look into the issues of repression and serious human rights violations.

Ogaden

Strongly condemn the war crimes by the Ethiopian armed forces at the direction of the Ethiopian government perpetrated against the people of Ogaden;

Call upon the Ethiopian government to end immediately hostilities against the Ogaden people, release all political prisoners and civilian detainees, and stop the economic and aid blockade of the Ogaden;

Call upon the people of Ethiopia not to become party to the Ethiopian regime’s war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ogaden;

Hereby Requests the United Nations to recognise the conflict between the Ogaden people and Ethiopia as an armed conflict and initiate a UN sponsored mechanism for resolving it, by assigning the political office of UN to  facilitating transparent,  serious negotiations between the ONLF and the current Ethiopian regime with no pre-conditions,  aimed at reaching a comprehensive, just and lasting political settlement of the conflict;

Hereby Requests  the UN General Secretary set up an internationally monitored and demilitarized humanitarian aid corridor into Ogaden so that aid is no longer used as a political weapon by the Ethiopian regime against the people of Ogaden;

Hereby Requests the UN General Secretary to initiate the investigation recommended by the UN fact-finding mission of 2007 and dispatch a fact-finding mission to investigate and  gross violations of  human rights in Ogaden appointing a special Human Rights Rapporteur;

Hereby Calls upon the international community hold the Ethiopian regime and its officials to account for its war crimes in Ogaden.

Zanzibar

Applauds the President of Zanzibar and the Secretary General of Civic United Front (CUF) for their move to resolve the political situation in Zanzibar and aim at uniting the people of Zanzibar.

Calls upon the international community to continue supporting the efforts to reconcile the people of Zanzibar and encourage the two parties to continue with their efforts to bring peace and stability and create an environment for economic social political and cultural development of Zanzibar.

Algemene foonnommer van die VF Plus: 0861 700 700