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Papua New Guinea (PNG) Prime Minister, James Marape is calling on Australian businesses to consider importing more from Papua New Guinea to balance the disproportionate import-versus-export scale that exist between the two countries. PNG Prime Minister James Marape He also wants to see more Australian investors partner with PNG to move his Government’s goals on downstream processing and industrialization closer to realization.  The Prime Minister said this as he apologized to the PNG-Australia Business Council for his non-attendance at its recently-concluded conference because of urgent work commitments. In a statement, Mr. Marape says PNG wants to move now into industrialization by tapping into downstream processing of its natural resources.  And, he is asking Australian companies to seriously partner PNG companies in the area of PNG building a stronger diversified economy, adding it is about time Australia buy more of PNG’s products. While appreciating the sturdy relationship already...

 PNG Police Commissioner David Manning said the 2022 joint security forces election debrief outcome will be presented to the Government through the Internal Security Minister for deliberations. Commissioner Manning made this undertaking during the joint security forces election debrief conference closing ceremony on Wednesday October 19, in Lae, Morobe Province. Mr Manning said, “From a security perspective we were able to deliver a successful security operation. Many of our views and concerns were cross-cutting issues involving all agencies. Our mandate was simple and also our intent was very clear as we remained committed from pre-election operation till the formation of Government. “The recommendations from this conference concerning the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary and the partner agencies tasked to provide a free, fair and safe election will be put forward to the Government for further deliberation. “Let me thank the partner agencies for the undivided support in this electi...

The PNG Chamber of Mines & Petroleum Conference 2022 officially commenced today in Sydney, Australia. About 1200 delegates are in attendance with many corporate organizations including the Mineral Resources Authority (MRA) participating as exhibitors. Prime Minister Hon James Marape when delivering his keynote speech, said Papua New Guinea like many other countries in the world has its own share of challenges when it comes to investment and business, but investors should not be discouraged by this situation. He said this was because these challenges were similar to those found in many other investment jurisdictions around the world. “You tell me where in the world does not have challenges?” He said some of the current investors in the country had found out and experienced for themselves that the countries they had invested in before, had similar issues like PNG. He said Total Energies and Santos were two of the investors now in PNG that had gone through these experiences and conseq...