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unusual facts about West New Guinea



United Nations Security Council

In its early decades, the body was largely paralyzed by the Cold War division between the US and USSR and their allies, though it authorized interventions in the Korean War and the Congo Crisis and peacekeeping missions in the Suez Crisis, Cyprus, and West New Guinea.


see also

Groote Oost

Moluccas (Amboina), including the Moluccas, West New Guinea, and other outlying islands such as Wetar and Aru

New York Agreement

However, during the Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference of 1949, both Indonesia and the Netherlands could not agree on the status of New Guinea, with the Netherlands arguing that it should keep West New Guinea for the eventual self-determination of the natives, once those inhabitants had become sufficiently "mature".