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Subject: PNG did become a Realm of the Crown
Author: Jim (Canada)	[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 14:56:16 12/11/04 Sat In reply to: David (Australia) 's message, "Policing Papua New Guinea's 'raskols'" on 11:00:57 12/11/04 Sat [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Papua New Guinea 'set to implode'

Author: David (Australia) [ Edit | View ]

Date Posted: 09:51:20 12/14/04 Tue By Phil Mercer BBC News, Sydney Papua New Guinea is heading towards economic and social collapse and could be overrun by criminals, a new Australian report warns. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute called for the global community to radically increase the amount of aid given to the country. It said Australia should take over some aspects of government. The Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, is heading to Papua New Guinea for bilateral meetings. The report warns that if Papua New Guinea's weaknesses are allowed to continue, the country could fall "off a cliff into full-scale state failure". The central government's authority would collapse and criminals would dominate the economy, it says. This gloomy assessment says serious decline is already well under way. 'Bleak economic outlook' The study found that Papua New Guinea's weak government and policing had allowed international crime gangs to relocate from South East Asia in recent years. The report's authors said that as Papua New Guinea's problems got worse, the risk of them spreading around the region increased. They urge Australia to more than double its aid budget and take control of PNG's immigration and customs services. The country has rich supplies of minerals and timber, but the economic outlook is extremely bleak for its population of five-and-a-half-million people. The rapid spread of HIV and Aids is putting further pressure on the authorities. Australia has begun sending a total of 210 police officers and more than 60 bureaucrats to its troubled neighbour as part of a multi-million dollar rescue package. Mr Downer will hold talks on security with his counterparts in Papua New Guinea as part of his annual tour of the South Pacific. It will include stop-overs in the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and New Zealand. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]