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Geen besprekingen (No negotiations: Sukarno at the Gerwani congress)

No negotiations: Sukarno at the Fourth Gerwani Congress

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De Volkskrant report (15 Dec 1961) on Sukarno's speech to what it calls the fourth congress of Gerwani, "the communist-controlled" women's movement, convened on women's role in the West Irian struggle. He rejected talks with the Netherlands, said power is created by politics, and promised armed force if the UN accepted the Dutch presence.

Laporan De Volkskrant (15 Desember 1961) tentang pidato Sukarno di apa yang disebutnya kongres keempat Gerwani, gerakan perempuan "yang dikendalikan komunis", yang digelar untuk membahas peran perempuan dalam perjuangan Irian Barat. Ia menolak berunding dengan Belanda dan menjanjikan kekuatan senjata bila PBB menerima kehadiran Belanda.

“President Sukarno spoke to the fourth congress of Gerwani, held to decide on the role of Indonesian women "in the struggle for West Irian".”

People

SukarnoSubandrio

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)United Nations

Places

JakartaWest New Guinea (Papua)Netherlands

Events

Fourth Gerwani Congress

Topics

congresses and meetingsWest Irian campaignGerwani organisationpeace and anti-imperialism

Tags

speech text

Details

Date
1961-12-15
Creator
De Volkskrant
Publication
De Volkskrant
Document type
newspaper article (newspaper or periodical article/page (text transcription/OCR))
Language
Dutch
Perspective
Western mainstream press
Source role
primary
Country
Netherlands
Period
1960–1965
Source archive
Delpher (KB, Netherlands) · source link
Access
open access (Delpher) Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Dutch press (1945-2000) - articles on Gerwis, Gerwani and members (Delpher)/De Volkskrant (1961-12-15) - Geen besprekingen [Delpher ABCDDD-010877135-a0004].txt
OCR / text
Good (0.903) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: yes
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Dutch press (1945-2000) - articles on Gerwis, Gerwani and members (Delpher)
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