{"id":27336,"date":"2024-06-19T19:30:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T19:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=27336"},"modified":"2024-06-19T19:30:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T19:30:49","slug":"delivering-under-the-australia-papua-new-guinea-bilateral-security-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/delivering-under-the-australia-papua-new-guinea-bilateral-security-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Delivering under the Australia-Papua New Guinea Bilateral Security Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, following the 30th Australia-Papua New Guinea Ministerial Forum, we announce a package of new initiatives to strengthen Papua New Guinea&#8217;s internal security and law and justice priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiatives, to be delivered under Australia and Papua New Guinea&#8217;s Bilateral Security Agreement, include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>support for PNG&#8217;s legal system to help PNG investigate and prosecute financial crime;<\/li><li>investments in programs to improve access to justice for young people and remote and regional communities;<\/li><li>support to make PNG&#8217;s correctional facilities safer and more secure.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We will deliver additional support for stability in the PNG Highlands, including a new program to help PNG improve weapons management and a partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will also provide further assistance to PNG in &#8216;non-traditional&#8217; security areas, such as cyber, biosecurity, and to address gender-based violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These initiatives will be funded from the $200 million committed by Australia to support PNG&#8217;s internal security priorities through our landmark Bilateral Security Agreement, announced by Prime Ministers Albanese and Marape in December 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent months, we have made progress on delivering on our ambitions for our bilateral security partnership, including through:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>commencement of construction on new police housing in Port Moresby and Mount Hagen;<\/li><li>additional Australian Federal Police support to the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC) on recruitment, training and forensics;<\/li><li>RPNGC Officer Cadet placements in the Queensland Police Service in Far North Queensland;<\/li><li>a new Police Patrol Vessel to enable the RPNGC to conduct long-range patrols of sea borders.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, our flagship Australia-PNG Law and Justice partnership is expanding from five to seven PNG provinces and regions, strengthening service delivery and access to justice for Papua New Guineans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator the Hon Penny Wong:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cAustralia and Papua New Guinea are working closely together to advance our shared priorities and ensure a peaceful, stable, prosperous Pacific.<\/p><p>\u201cThese new initiatives further strengthen our security partnership and deliver on our commitments under our landmark Bilateral Security Agreement.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Attorney-General, the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI was pleased to commission the Police Patrol Vessel Minigulai yesterday, which is just one example of how Australia is stepping up to strengthen PNG&#8217;s policing capabilities.<\/p><p>\u201cAlready this year we have broken ground to start delivering on a $37 million initiative to build police housing to help RPNGC get more police on the ground across PNG.<\/p><p>\u201cThe AFP continues to work closely with the RPNGC, including to recruit qualified senior officers, train police prosecutors and uplift forensics capability.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Minister for International Development and the Pacific, the Hon Pat Conroy MP:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe&#8217;re working with the Government of Papua New Guinea on their priorities, including strengthening the legal and justice system.<\/p><p>\u201cThe packages we announce today will help build capacity across PNG&#8217;s legal system to investigate and prosecute cases and improve access to justice in remote and regional communities.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, following the 30th Australia-Papua New Guinea Ministerial Forum, we announce a package of new initiatives to strengthen Papua New Guinea&#8217;s internal security and law and justice priorities. The initiatives, to be delivered under Australia and Papua New Guinea&#8217;s Bilateral Security Agreement, include: support for PNG&#8217;s legal system to help PNG investigate and prosecute financial &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/delivering-under-the-australia-papua-new-guinea-bilateral-security-agreement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Delivering under the Australia-Papua New Guinea Bilateral Security Agreement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27337,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336\/revisions\/27337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}