Regarding the Papua issue, Mahfud continued, the agenda at the United Nations had absolutely nothing to do with national integrity, including the issue of referendum.
“On Papua issue we will continue to discuss to seek peaceful resolution, because at the UN itself the agenda about Papua has absolutely nothing to do with national integrity, nothing to do with referendum. There was no discussion about Papua, in fact there is more discussion about Papua outside and on social media,” said Mahfud.
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Moving forward, Mahfud said, his ministry has discussed with the leadership of the UN Human Rights Council to jointly find solutions to issues that have started to improve from time to time, including gross human rights violation. (rr)