Papua New Guinea and New Zealand have committed to deeper defence cooperation, particularly in the maritime domain.<\/p>\n
The two countries have signed a statement of intent on defence cooperation for the next three years.<\/p>\n
The statement, signed in Port Moresby by New Zealand’s Defence Minister Chris Penk and his PNG counterpart Elias Kapavore, notes an intensifying geostrategic environment in the Pacific.<\/p>\n
It affirms that PNG will first seek support from the Pacific Islands Forum in times of crisis, including a security threat.<\/p>\n
The agreement commits to expand joint maritime operations, and the deployment of assets to undertake surveilance activities in PNG waters.<\/p>\n
It is also set to increase defence dialogue, training exercises and personnel exchanges between the two forces.<\/p>\n
New Zealand’s Defence Force had most recently come to PNG’s aid during Cyclone Maila.<\/p>\n
The statement of intent comes two weeks after PNG’s Pukpuk Treaty with Australia came into force, establishing a formal defence alliance that allows Papua New Guineans to enrol in the Australian Defence Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea and New Zealand have committed to deeper defence cooperation, particularly in the maritime domain. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-539938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}