We the New Zealand Baptist Union, as followers of Jesus Christ and his ministry of justice, hold the expectation that the New Zealand Government will recognize the sovereignty of the Indigenous peoples of Western Papua and uphold their Human Rights as set out in international declarations it has signed. These include, for example, the United Nations’ (1948) Declaration on Human Rights and the United Nations’ (2007) Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Therefore we have established the following statement: West Papua position statement