ACHEH-SUMATRA
NATIONAL
LIBERATION
FRONT
(ASNLF)
Eleventh
Session
of Human
Rights
Council
Statelessness:
29-30
Room
Root
XVII,
causes
and
Preventing
Palais
you,
Mr/Madam
Ladies
and Gentleman,
Acl'ieh-Sumatra
Speaking
It is indeed
on item
I would
Liberation
We are pleased
statelessness.
like
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affecting
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a human
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rights
minorities:
approach
Chair,
National
opportunity.
on Minority
Issue
of statelessness
statelessness
(Item
Thank
November
des Nations,
consequences
Forum
A Minority
or ASNLF
worild
year the forum
decided
one of the key
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to draw
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that this
causes
your
to thank
to address
the Forrim
for this
the qriestion
of
iSsues of our time.
and
attention
like
consequences
to the situations
of statelessness
of ethnic
affecting
minorities
minorities"
and statelessness
in
Indonesia.
As a sprawling
continental
arcliipelago
Europe,
To understand
and how
Unlike
stateless
Indonesia
intact
from
Dutch
consists
of dozens
have
the issue
been
East Indies
of statelessness
stateless
colony,
of different
ethnic
one must
and the conseqriences
with
a territory
and linguistic
go back
to root
as large
as
minorities.
causes
as why
thereafter.
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in many
become
Soviet
and address
a minority
Mr/Madam
and a former
Indonesia
of the world,
mostly
story,
and Yugoslavia.
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this
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one single
territory
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disputes
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by fon'ner
ethnic
colonial
minorities
powers.
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the entire
called
Dutch
Indonesia,
have
But
to the former
East Indies
has been kept
regardless
of how
and
confiscated.
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