US President Joe Biden To Visit PNG On His Way To Australia
Planning is underway for United States President Joe Biden to make a historic visit to Papua New Guinea on his way to Australia next month as the US continues to ramp-up its diplomatic push in the Pacific.
Friday 28 April 2023 | 18:45
From left: David W. Panuelo President of the Federated States of Micronesia, Former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama, United States President Joe Biden, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands Manasseh Sogavare and Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape. Photo: ABC NEW
Planning is underway for United States President Joe Biden to make a historic visit to Papua New Guinea on his way to Australia next month as the US continues to ramp-up its diplomatic push in the Pacific.
PNG and US officials have told the ABC that Mr Biden is likely to meet his PNG counterpart, James Marape, and other Pacific leaders in Port Moresby, after attending the G7 leaders in Hiroshima on May 20 and 21, and before he travels to Australia for the Quad leaders meeting in Sydney on May 24.
If the trip is confirmed, Mr Biden will become the first sitting US President — at least in recent history — to visit any Pacific Island nation, excluding US territories in the region.
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Source: ABC News
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