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Papua New Guinea. By: Anonymous Period 3. Location. Just South of the equator Oceania region. Environment. Papua New Guinea is a tropical country. It occupies the Eastern half of the island New Guinea as well as smaller islands around the area.

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Papua New Guinea By: Anonymous Period 3

Location • Just South of the equator • Oceania region

Environment • Papua New Guinea is a tropical country. • It occupies the Eastern half of the island New Guinea as well as smaller islands around the area. • The center part of the island has mountains know as the “Highlands.” • July, August, and September are the best times for traveling to Papua New Guinea. • Vegetation is a mixture between Australian and Asian.

People of Papua New Guinea • Melanesian, Papuan,and Micronesian are just some of the ethnic groups • Religions include Christianity, Buddhism, and Traditional. • Papua New Guinea has over 800 languages so everywhere you go they will be speaking a different language. • People in Papua New Guinea might know over 4 languages.

Travel Warnings • Ethnic tensions are currently higher than normal in Mount Hagen. • Crime rates are high in the capital Port Moresby and in other areas of Papua New Guinea. • Conflicts between clan groups occasionally leads to outbreaks of tribal fighting, often involving the use of firearms. • Road conditions are generally poor. • Malaria is the main disease to look out for in Papua New Guinea. • Flash floods are also common in Papua New Guinea

(Below) Road conditions In Papua New Guinea. (Above) Ethnic warriors in Papua New Guinea.

Festivals • Mt. Hagen Cultural Show where Papua New Guinea ethnic groups show of their talents, August 16 through 17. • National Mask Festival, people have parades all over Papua New Guinea (mainly in the city of Rabaul) dancing and wearing masks. It occurs in July 15 through 18.

(Right) National Mask Festival. (Below) Mt. Hagen Cultural Show. (Below-Right) Mt. Hagen Cultural Show.

Papua New Guinea Food • The main dish of Papua New Guinea people is fish and yams. • A unique food to Papua New Guinea is fried scorpions. • A restaurant in Papua New Guinea is very cheap, but if you eat homemade food it is free.

“Must sees” of Papua New Guinea • The Mount Hagen Cultural Show is a major must see in Papua New Guinea. • Another of the must sees of Papua New Guinea is the species of birds. (over 700) • Papua New Guinea’s next site to see is the city of Port Moresby with its beautiful buildings, and pottery.

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In this image supplied by the Australian Prime Ministers office, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, centre right, walks with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape as they start their trek along the Kokoda Track at Kokoda Village, Papua New Guinea, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The prime ministers on Tuesday began trekking into the South Pacific island nation’s mountainous interior to commemorate a pivotal World War II campaign and to underscore their current security alliance that is challenged by China’s growing regional influence. (Prime Ministers office via AP)

In this image supplied by the Australian Prime Ministers office, villagers perform a traditional welcome ceremony for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese prior to his walk with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape along the Kokoda Track at Kokoda Village, Papua New Guinea, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The prime ministers on Tuesday began trekking into the South Pacific island nation’s mountainous interior to commemorate a pivotal World War II campaign and to underscore their current security alliance that is challenged by China’s growing regional influence. (Prime Ministers office via AP)

In this image supplied by the Australian Prime Ministers office, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, left, walks with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister, James Marape as they start their trek along the Kokoda Track at Kokoda Village, Papua New Guinea, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The prime ministers on Tuesday began trekking into the South Pacific island nation’s mountainous interior to commemorate a pivotal World War II campaign and to underscore their current security alliance that is challenged by China’s growing regional influence. (Prime Ministers office via AP)

In this image supplied by the Australian Prime Ministers office, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese starts his walk along the Kokoda Track at Kokoda Village, Papua New Guinea, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Albanese and Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape on Tuesday began trekking into the South Pacific island nation’s mountainous interior to commemorate a pivotal World War II campaign and to underscore their security alliance that is challenged by China’s growing regional influence. (Prime Ministers office via AP)

In this image supplied by the Australian Prime Ministers office, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, right, and Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape watch as local villagers performa traditional welcome before they start their walk along the Kokoda Track at Kokoda Village, Papua New Guinea, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The prime ministers on Tuesday began trekking into the South Pacific island nation’s mountainous interior to commemorate a pivotal World War II campaign and to underscore their current security alliance that is challenged by China’s growing regional influence. (Prime Ministers office via AP)

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia and Papua New Guinea’s prime ministers on Tuesday began trekking into the South Pacific island nation’s mountainous interior to commemorate a pivotal World War II campaign and to underscore their current security alliance , which faces challenges from China’s growing regional influence.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese received an elaborate traditional welcome when he arrived by helicopter at Kokoda Village with his Papua New Guinean counterpart James Marape.

The pair will walk 15 kilometers (9 miles) over two days along the rugged Kokoda Track where the Japanese army’s advance toward what is now the national capital, Port Moresby, was halted in 1942 in the wilds of the Owen Stanley Range.

“In forging a relationship of brothers and sisters, together as one we will go forward,” Albanese told Australian Broadcasting Corp. as the pair set off from the village in tropical heat and humidity.

“We’re walking step by step, symbolizing our two nations walking together,” Albanese added.

Marape said their “shared journey today should send the world a message” that Papua New Guinea wants peaceful coexistence.

Australia and its nearest neighbor, Papua New Guinea , forged closer defense ties in December when Albanese and Marape signed a wide-ranging agreement in the Australian capital, Canberra.

The signing was delayed by six months after a security pact between Papua New Guinea and the United States sparked riots in the South Pacific nation over concerns that Papuan sovereignty was being undermined.

Marape said in December that his government’s security agreements with the U.S. and Australia did not mean he was siding with those allies in their strategic competition with China.

Albanese said Marape had assured him during at state dinner in Port Moresby on Monday night that Australia remained its “referred security partner.”

“This is a relationship that has never been closer, as symbolized by the fact that we’ll be walking side-by-side down the Kokoda Track,” Albanese told ABC in Port Moresby on Tuesday before flying to Kokoda Village.

Joe Biden had planned to become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Papua New Guinea in May last year, in a sign of the region’s growing strategic importance in the power struggle between the U.S. and China. But Biden canceled the visit to deal with a debt crisis in the U.S. Congress.

On top of disappointing Marape last year, Biden offended the prime minister last week by implying that the president’s army aviator uncle, Second Lt. Ambrose J. Finnegan Jr., had been eaten by “cannibals” after his plane crashed in Papua New Guinea during World War II.

Marape released a statement on Sunday saying that his “people daily live with the fear” of unexploded bombs left behind by a war that they had been “needlessly dragged into.”

Marape and Albanese will trek to a war memorial in the town of Isurava, the site of a bloody battle where U.S. and Australian troops fought the Japanese in August 1942.

Both leaders will commemorate Anzac Day at Isurava on Thursday, April 25 — the date in 1915 when the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on Turkey in an ill-fated campaign that provided the soldiers’ first combat of World War I.

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Illegal land grabbing is a massive problem in PNG and has a big impact on rural subsistence farmers. Once a company holds a lease title over the customary owned land, communities are displaced; and as a consequence, the forest dependent subsistence farmers, mothers and children are greatly affected as their movement is restricted. They lose access to gardening grounds, fishing, hunting and sacred sites.

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Papua New Guinea Leader Says China, Australia Visits Show 'Robust' Ties With Major Powers

Papua New Guinea Leader Says China, Australia Visits Show 'Robust' Ties With Major Powers

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(Reuters) - Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape said on Friday he looked forward to visits by China's foreign minister and Australia's prime minister in the coming days that demonstrated strong ties with countries accounting for more than 70% of its trade.

The high-level visits showed Papua New Guinea's "strategic role and its robust diplomatic relations with major Asia-Pacific powers," the Papua New Guinea government said in a statement.

The biggest Pacific Island nation, Papua New Guinea, is resource rich but largely undeveloped and is balancing growing trade ties with China, policing cooperation with Australia and a defence deal that gives the U.S. military access to its ports and airports.

"We will have two very important people in Papua New Guinea over the next couple of days in Chinese Foreign Minister Wang and Australian Prime Minister Albanese," Marape said in a statement on Friday.

"They are two of our leading bilateral partners, accounting for over 70 percent of our trade," he added.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who arrives on Saturday and will meet Marape on Sunday, is expected to sign economic cooperation agreements.

Marape said Papua New Guinea aims to complete a study on a free trade agreement with China by June, and welcomed direct exports of its agricultural produce to China.

"We do not intend to compromise our relationship with China, or with any other country, for that matter," Marape said, a reference to Papua New Guinea's foreign policy of "friends to all" amid rising tensions between Beijing and Washington in the region.

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will visit Papua New Guinea to commemorate defence ties on ANZAC Day by walking a section of the remote Kokoda Track used by Australian soldiers and the Pacific Island nation's "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels" during World War Two.

Marape confirmed Albanese will arrive in Papua New Guinea a few days earlier, and travel to Isurava on April 25.

"The visit of Prime Minister Albanese underscores the close relationships between our countries," he said.

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Papua New Guinea leader says China, Australia visits show 'robust' ties with major powers

By Kirsty Needham

(Reuters) - Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape said on Friday he looked forward to visits by China's foreign minister and Australia's prime minister in the coming days that demonstrated strong ties with countries accounting for more than 70% of its trade.

The high-level visits showed Papua New Guinea's "strategic role and its robust diplomatic relations with major Asia-Pacific powers," the Papua New Guinea government said in a statement.

The biggest Pacific Island nation, Papua New Guinea, is resource rich but largely undeveloped and is balancing growing trade ties with China, policing cooperation with Australia and a defence deal that gives the U.S. military access to its ports and airports.

"We will have two very important people in Papua New Guinea over the next couple of days in Chinese Foreign Minister Wang and Australian Prime Minister Albanese," Marape said in a statement on Friday.

"They are two of our leading bilateral partners, accounting for over 70 percent of our trade," he added.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who arrives on Saturday and will meet Marape on Sunday, is expected to sign economic cooperation agreements.

Marape said Papua New Guinea aims to complete a study on a free trade agreement with China by June, and welcomed direct exports of its agricultural produce to China.

"We do not intend to compromise our relationship with China, or with any other country, for that matter," Marape said, a reference to Papua New Guinea's foreign policy of "friends to all" amid rising tensions between Beijing and Washington in the region.

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will visit Papua New Guinea to commemorate defence ties on ANZAC Day by walking a section of the remote Kokoda Track used by Australian soldiers and the Pacific Island nation's "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels" during World War Two.

Marape confirmed Albanese will arrive in Papua New Guinea a few days earlier, and travel to Isurava on April 25.

"The visit of Prime Minister Albanese underscores the close relationships between our countries," he said.

(Reporting by Kirsty Needham; Editing by Jamie Freed)

Papua New Guinea was 'blessed' with a visit by China just a day ago. Anthony Albanese is hot on their tail

Analysis Papua New Guinea was 'blessed' with a visit by China just a day ago. Anthony Albanese is hot on their tail

It's becoming a fairly regular pattern now in Papua New Guinea that foreign leaders appear to visit within a short window of time from one another.

China's top diplomat, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, will have departed Port Moresby's Jacksons International Airport just over 24 hours before Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese touches down for an extended visit to walk the Kokoda Track.

PNG prime minister James Marape summed it up neatly on Sunday morning:

"They didn't plan to be back-to-back … but PNG is blessed," he told reporters.

While relations between Canberra and Beijing are thawing, there's still considerable geo-political posturing taking place in the South Pacific.

Mr Wang spent the weekend in Port Moresby for meetings with Mr Marape and PNG's Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko, with the two nations signing several agreements, relating to trade and information communication technology.

In his remarks following a bilateral meeting on Saturday, Minister Wang took aim at Australia and the AUKUS partnership – a security relationship for the Indo-Pacific region between Australia, the US and UK — claiming it "instigated division … not in line with the urgent needs of Pacific Island countries."

He also said that China saw Pacific Island countries as an "indispensable partner", with assistance given to countries without "strings attached", or an "imposition of our will."

And in a not-so-veiled swipe at language used by former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison, Mr Wang said Pacific Islands weren't the "backyard of any major country."

Just as Mr Wang was departing, Mr Marape spoke to reporters about the strengthening relationship between PNG and China.

But Australian officials will be elated at what Mr Marape had to say ahead of the Australian prime minister's visit.

"Australia-PNG relationship is also second to none," he said.

As PNG looks ahead, Australia reminds of the past

While the long-running Pacific diplomacy of Papua New Guinea has been an attitude of "friends to all, enemies to none", it appears PNG is marking clear lines as to what it's seeking from those friends.

With a population that largely lives on customary land that can be used for agricultural purposes, PNG sees the access to large export markets as a key to its economic empowerment.

Beijing is happy to oblige, with the two nations signing agreements that would allow PNG to more easily export cocoa and coffee beans.

"This will allow 80 per cent of our population that are self-reliant farmers the opportunity now to access one of the biggest markets in the world," Mr Tkatchenko said after the signing.

Chinese companies also have considerable interest in PNG's resources, notably its gold and liquid natural gas.

In an historic speech to Australia's parliament earlier this year, Mr Marape spoke about its pursuit of greater economic strength, to cut back on its dependence on development assistance.

In this respect, it sees China as a crucial partner.

"Trade supersedes aid and grants, we engaged in conversation to build a stronger economy in our country," Mr Marape said on Sunday of the bilateral talks with China.

The next few days, however, will highlight Australia and PNG's inalienable historic security ties, with a walk of the Kokoda Track by both prime ministers.

During the two-day trek, Mr Albanese will be focusing on the shared "service and sacrifice" of the two nations.

The trip will be laden with symbolism, as Mr Albanese looks to the past to build relationships in the Pacific to deal with contemporary challenges posed by China's growing presence in the region.

While Solomon Islands has signed policing and security agreements with Beijing, PNG officials have since gone to lengths to assure officials in Canberra that no security or policing deals were being worked on with Beijing.

Meanwhile, Australia and PNG continue to carry out construction of police infrastructure as part of a bilateral security agreement, and the joint redevelopment of PNG's Lombrum Naval Base on Manus Island.

Leaders take to Kokoda to honour shared history

Ahead of the walk, Mr Marape has described the opportunity for the two men, whom he describes as "good friends", as an "honour".

"The ANZAC spirit is as much ours as it is Australian and New Zealand's," he said.

"I will very much be privileged to walk that leg of the journey until the prime minister decides to call it enough.

"As the chief host of Prime Minister Albanese, it would be unfair on him and the Australian people if the PM of PNG does not accompany him for his stay in PNG."

Ahead of his departure, Mr Albanese described the Kokoda campaign and the Kokoda Track — where Australian and Papuan infantry battalions fought Japanese soldiers in the Second World War — as "part of our national identity."

"[It is] a defining chapter in the story of those who risked and lost their lives in defence of Australia and in our shared history with Papua New Guinea," he said in a statement.

"Kokoda is a name that lives in Australian legend. It captures the spirit of courage, endurance, mateship and sacrifice forged between Australia and Papua New Guinea during World War II.

"Participating in this walk is a solemn way to honour, to reflect on the sacrifices made by those who walked this same ground, people from Papua New Guinea and Australia, serving and sacrificing together in defence of their home."

The walk will conclude with an Anzac Day dawn service in the village of Isurava.

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Papua New Guinea puts capital under state of emergency after deadly riots

Soldiers and police patrolling streets where witnesses say quiet has replaced looting and chaos that reportedly left at least 16 people dead

Soldiers and police patrolled Port Moresby on Friday a day after Papua New Guinea declared a state of emergency in the capital in response to rioting and other violence in which at least 16 people are reported to have died.

The prime minister, James Marape, declared a 14-day state of emergency, suspending several officials and putting more than 1,000 soldiers on standby, after a police and public sector protest over pay on Wednesday descended into rioting and looting.

The city had returned to a “new normal” on Friday morning, with police and soldiers on the streets and long lines at petrol stations, according to Matt Cannon, who heads the local branch of not-for-profit emergency responder service St John Ambulance.

“We’re expecting the supermarkets that are functioning to reopen today and I’m hearing they have increased security to cater for potentially large numbers of people,” Cannon said.

Police and other public servants went on strike on Wednesday over a pay cut that officials later blamed on an administrative error.

Within hours, thousands thronged the streets, looting and rioting against a backdrop of smoke and burning buildings . A mob also tried to break through the gates outside the prime minister’s office.

On Friday, Marape faced a number of calls to resign, including from former prime minister Peter O’Neill. “I … am still reeling from the shocking scenes of destruction that gripped Port Moresby,” O’Neill said in a statement, calling it the darkest day in the country’s history.

“There is no shame in taking responsibility, but it is absolutely shameful to continue knowing you have lost command and control,” he added, referring to Marape.

Nine people were killed in the rioting in capital city and seven were killed in Lae, in the country’s north, the Australian national broadcaster ABC reported on Thursday, citing police. Four of those killed were reportedly shot by a business owner in a suburb of the capital.

More than 50 people were being treated for injuries at Port Moresby general hospital, according to a statement. Among them were a number of gunshot and knife wounds.

The finance secretary and police commissioner were among the officials suspended by the prime minister. In a statement, Marape that the decision to suspend them for 14 days “in no way indicates their involvement in matters of concern”.

Australia’s defence minister, Richard Marles, said on Friday the situation in the country had improved and that the Papua New Guinea government had issued some small requests for assistance from Canberra.

Things were quiet on Friday when Eddie Allo took the bus to his work at the Port Moresby general hospital. Most vehicles on the roads were government-owned and many people were short on fuel because petrol stations had been closed, he said.

“Everything is at a standstill now,” Allo said by phone. “Not many people are on the street and the police and army are patrolling around the areas on foot. No looting is going on.”

Rebecca Kuku is a reporter with The National, based in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

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