New York Agreement

Map with Western New Guinea (highlighted in red).

The New York Agreement is an agreement signed by the Netherlands and Indonesia regarding the management of the territory of Western New Guinea . The first part of the agreement proposes that the United Nations take over the management of the territory, and the second part proposes a set of social conditions that will be provided if the United Nations decides, proposed in article 12 of the agreement, to allow the Indonesian occupation of Western New Guinea. Agreed at meetings organized by the United States of America , the agreement was signed on August 15, 1962 at United Nations Headquarters in New York .

The agreement was added to the agenda of the 1962 United Nations General Assembly and accelerated General Assembly resolution 1752 (XVII), under which the powers of the United Nations occupy and govern Western New Guinea. Although the agreements cannot deny the obligations defined in the Charter of the United Nations, and the agreement claimed that it was for the benefit of the inhabitants of the territory, some people believed that the agreement sacrificed the people of the territory in the interests of foreign powers. A 1962 report by the United States General Department said that “the agreement was almost a complete victory for Indonesia and a defeat for the Netherlands”, that “the United States Bureau of European Affairs sympathizes with the Dutch point of view that Indonesia’s annexation will simply trade white for brown colonialism” and that "the main reason for which the administration of John F. Kennedy gave the Netherlands has agreed to this agreement is the fact that he believed that cold war considerations that Indonesia is not going to claim Passing on the communist language, blocked the Dutch case. "