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Papua New Guinea |
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Last reviewed: 06 August 2009 |
Country information
International relations
PNG's relations with its neighbours
Australia is PNG's most engaged partner. Along with considerable economic aid and technical assistance, including in areas of good governance, Australia also provides assistance to the PNG Defence Forces.
PNG is a member of the Pacific Island Forum and the South Pacific Commission, and regional sub-groupings such as the South Pacific Regional Environmental Program (SPREP). PNG has also been a major player in the Melanesian Spearhead Group – a political/economic group established in 1988.
Relations with the countries of East and South East Asia are important, in particular with Indonesia, with which PNG shares a land border, and increasingly so with China.
PNG's relations with the international community
PNG is a member of the UN, WTO and APEC, and is an Associate Member of ASEAN, and signed a Treaty of Amity and Co-operation with that organisation in 1989.
PNG maintains official overseas representation in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, China, the Philippines, the United States, the EU in Brussels, and the United Nations in New York.
PNG'S relations with the UK
Bilateral relations with the UK are good. Recent UK visitors to Papua New Guinea include: former FCO Ministers John Battle and Bill Rammell, HRH The Princess Royal, the UK Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, The Royal College of Defence Studies, and HRH The Duke of Gloucester. Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare visited the UK in July 2008. Other recent Ministerial visits to the UK have been made by Benny Allan, PNG's Minister for the Environment and Conservation, and by John Hickey, PNG's Minister for Agriculture.
