"It will be a fantastic agreement protecting our natural resources from being illegally poached and stolen, especially our fishing," he added.Ĭhina has a decade-long history of infrastructure projects in the region, and last year struck a security pact with Solomon Islands, which has since placed a moratorium on U.S. Once we sign that it will help monitor our waters, which we can't at the moment," he said. Coast Guard to patrol PNG's vast exclusive economic zone, with PNG officials on board as "ship riders", also will be signed and cover satellite surveillance, he said in an interview. and PNG was finalised last week, "which now allows us to officially sign it when Biden comes here".Ī separate agreement to allow the U.S. There he will meet 18 Pacific island leaders.įoreign Minister Justin Tkachenko told Reuters a Defence Cooperation Agreement between the U.S. Washington is seeking to deter Pacific island nations, which span 40 million kilometres of ocean, from security ties with China, a rising concern amid tensions over Taiwan.īiden will visit PNG capital Port Moresby on May 22 on his way to a summit of the Quad countries - the United States, Japan, India and Australia - in Sydney, the White House has confirmed. development assistance to $32 million, including $25 million to tackle its security priority of climate change, State Department documents submitted to the U.S. PNG, the South Pacific's most populous nation, will also see a doubling of U.S. President Joe Biden will sign defence and surveillance agreements with Papua New Guinea, the island nation's foreign minister said, on a visit that renews the strategic importance of the nation where Biden's uncle died in World War Two.
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