Hela Students Studying in China Congratulate James Marabe

By Yupi Henry - Student Representive

On behalf of the Hela students studying in China and around the world, wishes to congratulate you, Rt. Hon. James Marape, CMG. MP., the 8th Prime Minster of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea.
We are proud to see that you have gone to the top of Papua New Guinea’s top political structure, where on seven people have reached. We are pleased to say that you have created history for our new province. In doing so, you have changed the negative image about Hela. You have proved negative thinkers wrong when you have rose to the top. We are grateful to say that you have given us, Hela, hope that we can achieve that which seem is impossible. 

Your achievement has not only made us proud but also challenged us as young people to aim high and work together toward achieving it. We embrace your saying, “let no older man tell you, you can’t do anything or fight for your rights’’. You have proved it and we are encouraged and empowered by your words, Prime Minister, Hon. James Marape. 

We know that our educated elites across the country will pay an important role to support you in this leadership. We also pledge to support you in whatever ways we can in different fields of study to bring our country forward.

We pray that the good Lord in heaven will continue to guide and lead you as he always does and did over the years, so that you can achieve the slogan “To take PNG back and make it the rich black Christian nation in the world”.

Again congratulation Prime Minister!

Newly elected Prime Minister addressing his people

By Hon. James Marabe Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea

Good morning all friends out there, a new week has started and I am set for the bigger and greater challenges that lays ahead in terms of changing the course our country must travel on for better development for our people.

But firstly let me thank a host of many friends, families, and citizens of this country who supported one way or another, especially the many Christian prayer warriors, there were many ugly political currents at play even down to the very last minute but God of the Universe , God Yahweh made it possible and for that let me say thank you to many Christians of all denominations who not necessarily prayed for me but the need for safe country, God’s will to prevail and for our country to grow greater.

Former PM’s resignation, my election and all associated events took place under God’s watch hence I am greatly burdened to ensure the right thing is done for all of PNG’s citizens.

I have made huge commitments to our nation and none can be greater then to say that in ten years time this country must be the Richest Black Christian Nation. And that is because we have all the natural endowments; gold, copper, iron, coal, gas, oil, nickle, timber, tuna and fish, agriculture, tourism and culture, biomedicine and research, water, fresh unpolluted air and more in a nation of under 8 million people in a big land mass.

I have a band of like minded leaders sitting on both sides of the National Parliament and we are driving an agenda to grow the economy in a safe, secured, and educated country where all citizens are making honest productive living and all have equal opportunities as our constitution in 1975 envisage.

I will be tapping into these talents soon to get a line up of full cabinet with ministers who can share the vision with me, those who believe we can do it. I did a caretaker arrangement to appreciate the political structure we had as we took vote but this week I will fill in Ministers I assessed that can work in key sectors for productivity and not just for politics convenience. There will be a healthy mix in my cabinet for good performance based on talents and experiences and our development intend.

I will also be checking out our public service to ensure those leading them or working in the rank and file have a believe that they will meaningfully contribute to making our home, Papua New Guinea, a truly wealthy country as it supposed to be, where quality health, quality education and quality infrastructure and effective law and order system secured our country.

To our contractors of State, you have now, a Prime Minister, who expects nothing in return for giving state contracts. All we expect is do your fair bidding with right price and get your job done. Don’t offer inducement to me or any ministers or public servants from procurement offers and every other officers in the chain of procurement and contract management. I will instruct the new justice minister to bring Independent Commission Against Corruption ( ICAC), in the first instance so let us all play by the rules now going forward.

Contractors earn your money to limit as per work scope. Public servants and politicians earn your salary and don’t ask for special favors. It must start now if it hasn’t started yet! I will ask National Procurement Commission (NPC) to polish the contract ceilings where contracts under K10million are strictly for citizen and local companies and contracts above that threshold to have local partnership involvement also.

To local SME and contractors, we have a special incentive plan for you in this mid level, tidy your company books, pay your honest tax and if you want to go the next phase of your business, we will inject very soft term loans ( possibly 5% repayment rate over 40 year period). Tidy your books, including your taxes, prepare to be part of our program to resuscitate our businessmen and women.

To multi national companies who operate in our resources sectors, I am not here to chase you away but to work with you so that we can add value to the benefits that emanates from the harvest of our natural endowment. I will be meeting with key resources sector and I request you all to assist me as to how we must grow my Papua New Guinea economy.

I look forward to your interventions and I have a fresh team of PNG advisors looking into all our resource laws and I am putting you all on notice that laws will be tailored for implementation when our country moves past 50 years of independence in 2025. Presently all projects agreements that are in compliance and congruent to all our laws will be honored.

We are here to protect our genuine foreign investors who can respect our laws as it is now and our intend of policy and legal regime shift into the future.

To all young educated PNG citizens, I will be asking few of our leaders including myself on your views about Taking Back PNG (with GJ approval) to interface and pick your thoughts. Keep a look out on this space on forums we will organize for your voices to be heard. I don’t buy into outside advisors, we have in the intelligent and experience pool in country, let us mobilize into cohesive units.

To all our citizens, we are prepared to work, can I ask of one thing? Give me a good law and order environment, stop crime, stop tribal fights (my Hela please), stop torture of mothers and daughters, stop corruption at all levels, honor time by being punctual, do little things like stop littering and spitting the red stain of betel nuts,.

Let’s us all contribute, I am willing to make few hard calls going forward as the chief servant of my country, Papua New Guinea, please join me all citizens including businesses.

Keep a look out in this space as from time to time I will communicate with the nation using this medium. Please forgive me if I don’t reply as you all will outnumber me but at least you read my thoughts.

This Wednesday I will have a State of Nation Address on Radio and TV on some of these points plus others but for now you can see where my mind is and those of you who want to work with me please align here or offer me better solution to make PNG the Richest Black Christian Nation on earth, where no child in all part of our country is left behind.

God Bless Papua New Guinea!

Honourable James Marape, MP, Hulukumaiya
Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea.

WHY I WAS ABSENT FROM PARLIAMENT - Part 1 of 2

By Bryan Kramer MP - Posted on Facebook

Following the election of James Marape as the 8th Prime Minister, there has been numerous articles posted on social media asking the question why I was absent and abstained from voting.

Last Wednesday, the former Prime Minister Peter O'Neill announced his resignation. Soon after resigning Members of Parliament walked over to acknowledge him.

What was unknown to 27 Members of Opposition or William Duma's URP, was that 4am that morning James Marape had struck a deal with Peter O'Neill to resign, which would trigger a vacancy after which Marape would lead 34 Members from the Laguna Camp across to join Crown and be their nominee for the PM position.

Why and how did it all happen?

On Tuesday, the Members of Laguna Camp conducted a secret ballot to determine who will be named as the alternative Prime Minister. There were three main contenders for the position, James Marape, Patrick Pruaitch and William Duma.

The numbers were stacked as follows:

Marape 27 Members
Pruaitch 27 Members
Duma 13 Members

Marape's 27 Members included:
Pangu - Ginsou/Marape (21)
People's Party - Ipatas/Davis/Tongamp (3)
Our Development Party - Puka Temu (1)
THE Party - Jeffrey Kama (1)

Pruaitch 27 Members included:
Original Opposition 24
Wera Mori (1) - Ex PNC / joined NA
Tony Wouowu (1) Ex PNC / joined NA
Social Development Party - John Kaupa (1)

Duma's URP Members included:
Original URP 9 of 11 that crossed to Laguna camp
Two absent Members, Fabian Pok & Wesley Ramani who decided to remain with Crown camp.
Pila Ninigi (defected from PNC joined URP)
Richard Masere (defected from PNC joined Pangu then URP)
John Pundari (defected from PNC joined URP)
Douglas Tomurisea (defected from PNC joined Pangu then URP).

Before Duma agreed to join, Laguna camp had 49 Members, short of 7 MPs to meet the required majority of 56 Members.

Duma insisted that he would only join camp provided Marape and Pruaitch sign an MOU stating that he would become the alternative Prime Minister. This agreement was signed at 4am in the morning without the knowledge of the rest of Members in the Laguna Camp.

Duma having this agreement in his pocket (literally) convinced four PNC Members (Ninigi, Masere, Pundari and Tomurisea) to join URP with the promise of a Ministry appointment.

However, what Duma and the PNC Members were not aware of was that while Pruaitch and Marape may have agreed to nominate Duma, it didn't mean the remaining Members of the Laguna camp would.

This issue was raised on Monday morning at the Laguna camp where it was proposed that a secret ballot would determine the nominee. After some debate it was agreed the three nominees needed to discuss between themselves as to who will be the nominee and if they couldn't decide then a secret ballot would proceed.

Earlier on the same day, the Opposition caucus meeting was held to debrief on the latest issues concerning the nomination. Pruaitch explained that he was in discussion with Peter O'Neill about the option of joining Crown camp, where O'Neill would resign and nominate Pruaitch as the next Prime Minister.

We were each asked for our views, on account this was not the first time the issue of joining O'Neill came up, I stood up and announced to our team that I've had enough of this crap and could no longer be part of a team who were considering joining O'Neill or even in discussion with him. I explained to Pruaitch that while in camp I was told that Pruaitch was in talks with O’Neill which I vehemently denied stating that he would never go back to O'Neill. I left the Opposition team since I refused to be party to any plans of joining O’Neill and I offered to help Marape’s team.

On Monday evening, the night before the secret ballot, I started lobbying with Members of Marape’s team and National Alliance Members (Allan Bird) together with URP Team (Jelta Wong) that we should just nominate James Marape to be the alternative. I was concerned that if we went to a secret ballot there would be issues.

At 7am Tuesday morning, Duma held a caucus meeting with 13 of his Members at pool side. I checked back with Bird and Wong what their party position was, their response being they would not support Marape.

After breakfast all 67 members of Laguna camp met to discuss who will be the nominee. There was heated debate, Wong insisting the terms of MOU that Duma should be honoured while others said that agreement is not binding because the Members were not party to it.

Marape, Duma, and Pruaitch left the room, in their discussion Duma argued it was only fair they should honour the MOU, however Pruaitch objected making the point Duma put his hand on the Bible week’s earlier saying he would join the Laguna camp on 7th May 2019 but instead stayed with O’Neill.

Duma realising that if it went to secret ballot he would certainly lose with only 13 MPs, he instead pulled out of the race and said whichever candidate wins he would be the Deputy Prime Minister. Unknown to Marape, Duma had already struck a deal to support Pruaitch.

While they were in a meeting I took out my laptop and ran then numbers, anticipating Duma would back Pruaitch and having pulled out of Opposition I would cast my vote for Marape.

Marape’s 27 MPs plus my vote would mean he would poll 28, Duma 13 backing Pruaitch 26 (less me) would poll 39.

Marape, Duma and Pruaitch returned and they announced it was agreed Duma had pulled out and there would be secret ballot between Marape and Pruaitch. Even though I knew without a doubt Marape would lose I still voted for him, reasons for which I will provide in a later article.

Following the secret ballot the results were as predicted; Pruaitch 39, Marape 28. Soon after the ballot a press conference was staged to announce that Pruaitch would be nominee for alternative Prime Minister.

It was evident that many of Marape’s 27 MPs who voted for him were deeply disappointed. That evening we all met in Marape’s room. I witnessed Marape explain to his team he had accepted the results.

I explained to them it was not over yet, as I expected Peter O’Neill to resign on the 11th hour to dislodge the Opposition’s notice of motion of no confidence. It would mean a vacancy in the Office of Prime Minister and parties would go back into camp to elect a new Prime Minister.

4am that morning, the Southern Highlands Members of Crown Camp contacted James Marape to join their camp after he had lost the nomination. Marape explained the only way to return would be if O’Neill resigned. Members of the Crown camp in fear of ending up in the opposition following a vote of no confidence and National Alliance Party return to power put massive pressure on O’Neill to agree to resign.

The fact Opposition side had taken over the Parliament Committee there was no question of doubt O’Neill would be voted out of office.

The next morning the Laguna Camp met to sign the notice of motion to lodge it with Speaker and the committee to agree to have it listed on the notice paper.

However, when Parliament reconvened that morning O’Neill announced his resignation, Marape took his cue to acknowledge him for it. When Parliament adjourned Marape crossed the floor and exited through the Government Members back entrance. A 25 seater bus was waiting for him with his 27 Members and on his tail was William Duma and Jelta Wong. When Duma tried to enter the bus Marape stopped him and said sorry this bus is only for 28 Members who voted for me. Of course 28th Member was me, who had no idea what had transpired. Straight after Parliament adjourned I had no intention of shaking O’Neill’s hands and left through the Opposition lounge.

In part 2 I will explain what transpired in the 24 hours that lead to Marape’s election, why I was absent and the Oppositions scheme to block Marape from being elected by nominating O’Neill and Mekere, and how it miraculously back fired and how they unashamedly tried to cover it all up.

Tari celebrates its leader's election as PNG prime minister

By Radio New Zealand

The Highlands town of Tari has been in celebration mode after the election of its MP, James Marape, as Papua New Guinea's prime minister.

Mr Marape was elected by MPs yesterday as the country's new prime minister, replacing Peter O'Neill who earlier resigned after almost eight years in the role.

Residents of Tari, the capital of Hela province, reacted to the news by marching in and around the town in jubilation.

Hela is the hub of the country's first major LNG gas project, operated by ExxonMobil, which has been exporting successfully for almost five years.

However local communities have complained they are yet to see promised benefits frmo the development.

Mr Marape has promised his government will review oil and gas sector laws to ensure PNG maximises the benefits from its resources.

Tari residents celebrate James Marape's election as PNG Prime Minister, 30 May 2019. Photo: Homoko Ali

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New Papua New Guinea leader a wildcard in Pacific power play

By Tom Westbrook, Colin Packham - Reuters

SYDNEY (Reuters) - When Papua New Guinea’s lawmakers started to shift their weight in their parliamentary seats in preparation for a tense vote on a new prime minister on Thursday, James Marape looked uninterested, his head lowered, fingers tapping his phone.

The former finance minister later explained he was preparing notes for a speech, should numbers fall his way.

They did, and the notes turned into a powerful series of addresses which signaled a desire to reset how the archipelago conducts business and diplomacy amid a strategic battle between China and the United States for influence in the Pacific.

“We are still struggling to economically free ourselves,” Marape told reporters moments after he was sworn in.“The nation needs to know that this is a break free ... and the emergence of a new group of like-minded leaders,” he said referring to himself and his supporters.

Marape became prime minister after receiving 101 votes to eight in parliament, a day after former leader Peter O’Neill resigned having lost the support of the house following almost eight years in power.

The new leader told the chamber he wanted to make his country the richest black Christian nation on earth, then headed to Royal Port Moresby golf club for his regular Thursday round, according to the club’s pro, Nelson Gabriel.

DEBT OF GRATITUDE

Formerly administered by U.S.-ally Australia, PNG has in recent years turned increasingly to China for financing as Beijing becomes a bigger player in the region, something Marape is being asked by colleagues to change.

“I would request that we take a long hard look at all Chinese arrangements,” one MP who shifted from opposition to support Marape’s leadership bid told Reuters, requesting anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

PNG is rich in mineral resources and is close to both U.S. military bases on the island of Guam and to Australia.

China forged a particularly strong relationship with O’Neill, who was the first Pacific leader to sign up to China’s Belt and Road infrastructure-building program and who met President Xi Jinping more than a dozen times during his time in power, the former leader’s spokesman told Reuters.

In dollar terms, PNG has the biggest debt to China among its neighbors, representing about one-quarter of its total external debt.

Foreign diplomats are now scrambling to understand the new leader, and there is belief among some PNG lawmakers and western diplomats that China has the most to lose by the change in leadership.

“We are trying to get some face time with him,” a senior British diplomatic source told Reuters.

“I suspect China is too and will be looking to pitch him with promises, but Marape has protectionist sentiments. Chinese loans often come with requirements to use Chinese labor and companies - if Marape isn’t willing to accept those terms, it could be an opportunity for the West.”

A senior U.S. government source said Marape’s family has connections with the United States because his eldest son is enrolled at a North American university.


“Marape has always been a supporter of Western principles such as democracy,” the U.S. source said.

“As finance minister he warned about unsustainable debt levels. We are comforted and buoyed by these statements.”

China’s embassy in Port Moresby did not respond to requests for comment. Analysts say Marape’s former job as finance minister will make him a familiar and friendly face to Chinese diplomats.

“We will engage with the Chinese government and its people (and) so long as it is fair and friendly to us and in our terms, we’re happy with that,” Marape told Australian Broadcasting Corporation television.

SON OF A PREACHER
The 48-year-old son of a Seventh Day Adventist pastor, Marape hails from PNG’s poor but gas-rich highlands.

He supported a 2009 landowner agreement that paved the way for Exxon’s $19 billion PNG LNG project, according to local media reports at the time, but soon became a critic of the oil and gas giant after the anticipated tax-take came in lower than forecast.

On Thursday, he put some of the world’s biggest resources companies including France’s Total on notice over a perceived lack of wealth flowing from their projects back to communities.

Total’s Chairman and CEO, Patrick Pouyanne, told journalists in Paris on Wednesday that O’Neill had defended the interest of his country during the negotiations.

While Marape has indicated he wants to diversify the country’s interests and develop its tourism industry, he is not against resources development.


In his highlands electoral base, he has led disarmament initiatives to strip “gun-toting cowboys” of their weapons, who he has blamed for trying to interrupt gas operations.

Parliamentary colleagues are expecting him to shake things up.

“It is time for a transition, it is time for a new generation ... to move on and bring some of the change that our people have been crying for,” Charles Abel, who served as O’Neill’s deputy, told parliament after Marape’s election.

Reporting by Tom Westbrook, Colin Packham and Jonathan Barrett in SYDNEY; Writing by Jonathan Barrett; Editing by Lincoln Feast.

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New PNG PM pledges to 'take back economy' from foreigners

By Angus Grigg, Lisa Murray & Jonathan Shapiro - AFR Financial Review

Papua New Guinea’s new Prime Minister James Marape has put foreign companies on notice, pledging to change laws in the resources sector and “take back the economy”.

Delivering his first speech since easily winning a parliamentary leadership vote on Thursday morning, Mr Marape praised his predecessor Peter O’Neill while indicating he would move the country in a new direction.

“Who says one conglomerate from outside can come and tell me I can’t change the laws for my country,” he told parliament.

“I have every right to tweak and turn resource laws. We are all about maximising resources for our country.”

The nationalistic rhetoric marks a departure from the O’Neill Government and could delay a critical agreement with the government that is needed to proceed with a $US14 billion expansion of LNG as the new Prime Minister seeks to renegotiate the fiscal terms.

There are two separate ventures: Papua LNG, led by France's Total; and PNG LNG, led by ExxonMobil. ASX-listed Oil Search has a stake in both ventures. Shares in Oil Search closed 2 cents lower at $7.13.

At a press conference, Mr Marape pledged to table an Ombudsman Commission report into the government's borrowing of $1.2 billion from investment bank UBS - a complicated deal which cost PNG at least $400 million.

The investigation into the loan, which financed PNG’s purchase of a 10 per cent stake in Oil Search, was one of the main weapons used by the opposition to bring down Mr O’Neill.

Tabling the report, which found the deal may have resulted in 15 laws being broken, is the first step in bringing disciplinary action against Mr O’Neill.

Former PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill officially resigned on Wednesday. AP

“Now that he has been dislodged from the office of Prime Minister he can expect to face criminal prosecution,” opposition MP Brian Kramer said on Wednesday evening.

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Introducing PNG's new leader: James Marape

By Johnny Blades, Radio New Zealand Pacific Journalist

On the face of it, Papua New Guinea's new prime minister is an odd mix: a humble Christian and a political heavyweight in a cut-throat parliament.

After all, rising to the top of PNG's political scene - so often a flock of vultures driven less by national interest than the need to feather their own nests - is not for the faint-hearted.

But James Marape has prevailed through a combination of timing and audacity. The MP for Tari-Pori became PNG's eighth prime minister by rolling the man who he had supported as a key lieutenant since 2011.

It was Mr Marape's resignation as Finance Minister seven weeks ago, citing mistrust with the prime minister, which triggered a series of mass defections from Peter O'Neill's ruling People's National Congress party and the coalition government.

A flood of grievances over PNG's ailing economy, deteriorating basic services, handling of the country's resource wealth and festering corruption allegations ultimately turned the tide against Mr O'Neill who resigned as prime minister this week after almost eight years in the role.

The new prime minister was elected by an overwhelming majority of MPs on Thursday. A Seventh Day Adventist who is a graduate of the University of PNG with a Bachelor in Arts and honours in environmental science, Mr Marape made a gesture of humility in his maiden speech as PNG's leader.

"I am not multi-talented, I am the first to admit this. I am neither a saint. I make mistakes - that I can promise you. But I will make honest mistakes and not deliberate mistakes. In my lack of total talent and knowledge, I will draw from every one of you."

In essence, the rump of the O'Neill-led government has merely reconfigured to remain in power with a new leader. However significant hopes for change are pinned on Mr Marape's emergence as prime minister.

James Marape (centre in black suit) walks back to parliament after being sworn in as prime minister of Papua New Guinea, 30 May 2019. Photo: RNZ Pacific/ Melvin Levongo

Bold move

If Mr Marape had not been bold enough to leave the government and combine forces with the opposition, as the opportunity for a motion of no confidence against Mr O'Neill arose, there would probably have been no change in leadership.

Such has been Mr O'Neil's mastery of the PNG political scene that few MPs in government have been willing to risk the perks of government and access to district funds by deserting him. But the signs have been clear for some time that people across PNG have been suffering for lack of basic services, especially health, and want change.

While Madang MP Bryan Kramer may claim to have landed lasting blows against Mr O'Neill with his relentless Facebook attacks, it was James Marape who ultimately brought the government down. When Mr Marape left government, more MPs followed him. He is personable, has significant mana, and shares genuine friendships across the chamber.

As PNG's new leader, he likened himself to a choir master bringing different singers together to deliver a harmonious performance, and begged membersfrom both sides of the house to follow the music he sets.

"Combined we can make a song that our children shall truly deserve in this country. No child must be left behind."

Telling parliament that he wanted PNG to be "the richest, black, Christian nation on planet Earth" within a decade, Mr Marape prioritised addressing uneven benefits from the country's abundant resource wealth.

One of the central reasons he left Mr O'Neill in April was disatisfaction at how his people had not seen promised benefits from PNG's first major LNG gas project, operated by ExxonMobil, which is based in his province, Hela, and has been exporting successfully for almost five years.

The new-look government, whose cabinet is yet to be finalised, is to review laws governing mining, oil and gas and other resource sectors, with Mr Marape saying his leadership was all about PNG taking back ownership of its economy in which foreign entities play a dominant role.

"We don't need more foreigners to come in and export our forestry sector. Those players currently playing in this country, your time is now to go into downstream (processing) and not round log exports."

James Marape said he didn't intend to chase away investors, but rather he encouraged them. Yet he insisted that PNG must maximise gain from its God-given resources.

Peter O'Nell and James Marape celebrate election success in 2017 Photo: PMO Media

Patchy record

A lingering problem for James Marape is that he has been caught up in some of Peter O'Neill's most glaring scandals in recent years.

Both of them were implicated in an alleged fraud case over which police sought an arrest warrant for Mr O'Neill in 2014. The case has not yet fully made it to court because the arrest warrant and other machinations behind the investigation were subjected to myriad legal challenges by the former prime minister.

Along with Mr O'Neill, Mr Marape was referred by the Ombudsman for a leadership tribunal investigation over a controversial $US1.2 billion loan that the government took on from Swiss-based investment bank UBS in 2014.

The two MPs come from the same Highlands region where deadly violence broke out during the 2017 elections and raged on well into 2018. Much of the unrest was sparked over widespread perceptions that the polls were rigged.

Mr Marape was declared the winner by PNG's Electoral Commission with just over 50 per cent of a total of 60,000 votes that were reportedly cast in his constituency - which was remarkable given the electoral roll had only about 40,000 eligible voters in Tari-Pori electorate.

During this week's dramatic parliament proceedings, in which Mr O'Neill finally resigned after appearing to backtrack on an earlier commitment to stand down, Mr Marape admitted that as a member of government he had made mistakes, but these were not deliberate. It was the systematic mistakes, he said, that his leadership would be working to eradicate.

He reminded the chamber that all the MPs were humans, and humans are not perfect, for that is the way God planned it.

James Marape and his wife Rachael Marape signing the visitors book at Government House after arriving for his swearing in as Prime Minister of PNG. Photo: PNG PM Media

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