By AFP – Agence France Presse April 20, 2024 Order Reprints Print Article Text size CORRECTS para 3 to reveal Wang Yi conference with PNG prime minister is Sunday sted Saturday Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will fly to Papua New Guinea on Monday for joint war ceremonies, his workplace stated, getting here on the heels of a weekend see by China’s foreign minister. Albanese’s outreach comes at a time of increased competition in between Western powers and China in the area, each looking for to enhance ties with tactically crucial, frequently resource-rich South Pacific island countries. The Australian leader begins his four-day journey to Papua New Guinea simply a day after China’s leading diplomat Wang Yi concludes a weekend go to including talks with his equivalent Justin Tkatchenko on Saturday and breakfast with Prime Minister James Marape on Sunday. Albanese prepares to invest 2 days strolling with Marape along part of the Kokoda Track, which traces the website of a bloody World War II project battled in between Japanese forces and Australian soldiers, who were supported by Papua New Guinean infantry. “Kokoda is a name that resides in Australian legend. It catches the spirit of nerve, endurance, mateship and sacrifice created in between Australia and Papua New Guinea throughout World War II,” the Australian prime minister stated in a declaration on Saturday. Albanese is likewise to sign up with an Anzac Day dawn service on Thursday, honouring those eliminated in an unfortunate World War I landing of Australia and New Zealand Army Corps soldiers at Gallipoli, in what is now Turkey, in 1915. djw/sco/pbt
Australia PM To Visit Papua New Guinea For Wartime Commemoration – Barron’s
