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AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Scott Morrison, pictured, has announced a K597 million investment into the Papua New Guinea electrification programme to support electricity generation in the Ramu grid.
Morrison made the announcement during his meeting with Prime Minister James Marape on Monday, the first of his five-day state visit to Australia this week.
“Today we’ve made some important agreements to elevate our relationship into comprehensive strategic and economic partnership,” Morrison said. “There is an economic relationship that’s about enabling the joint prosperity of both of our countries, and supporting and enabling the health and wellbeing and education of our citizens.
“This is a relationship that is tackling and addressing the security challenges that we face together and we work in addressing and through programmes like the secondary school programmes and church programmes and broader part of the Pacific step up programme,” Morrison said.
The other announcement included the Enga electrification programme which was part of the broader relationship with the United States, Japan and New Zealand in supporting what was a transformational project for PNG combined with the Coral Sea cable project.
Morrison also announced the K129 million for the rural primary health services initiatives and another project of K24 million for the immunisation programme covering about 400,000 children across 12 provinces. He said Australia was also continuing its support of K35 million ($15m) for the next phase of controlling the drug resistance Tuberculosis programme.
“There is also the Defence partnership which is celebrating 40 years and working together in the PNG initiative in Lombrum in Manus is an important part of what Australia is doing in the region and we than asked Papua New Guinea for the invitation to join them in that facility together with the United States.
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