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Puka Temu

lines on the record: 42
first: 2008-09-24
most recent: 2016-09-24
sittings or episodes: 2
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“We deeply value and appreciate the fact that he is the only serving United Nations Secretary-General who has visited our region twice and has also enabled a regular annual dialogue with Pacific Islands Forum leaders, including his invitation to tomorrow’s meeting. Those actions clearly attest to his visionary and caring leadership for our regional issues. On my Government’s and the people’s behalf, I wish him and his wife good health and every success in his next endeavour.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“Papua New Guinea notes the process underway to select the next Secretary-General to succeed the incumbent, whose term comes to a conclusion at the end of December 2016. Papua New Guinea looks forward to working with the next Secretary-General, and we pledge our support in continuing the reform agenda. On behalf of Papua New Guinea, I join previous speakers in paying tribute to the current Secretary- General for his outstanding leadership in bringing the international community together to address the unprecedented challenges during his tenure of office. For Papua New Guinea, he has also been the champion of small island developing States and the Pacific.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“The United Nations must not merely preach about gender equality and empowerment, it must be seen to exercise and implement what it advocates. Nevertheless, Papua New Guinea commends the Secretary-General for his efforts to reform the United Nations system. Every effort must be made by all Member States to ensure that the United Nations is reformed to better suit today’s world and be fit for purpose so as to serve its membership justly and fairly. We thank the outgoing President of the General Assembly for his innovative initiative to introduce transparency and inclusiveness for Member States in what has long been a closed and opaque process in the selection of a new Secretary-General of the United Nations.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“While Papua New Guinea recognizes that changes in any institution are never easy, we remain concerned about the slow and merely incremental pace of the reforms of the United Nations. With respect to the Security Council, while we welcome the incremental progress made in the past year, we have, however, witnessed in the process of the selection of the next Secretary-General of the United Nations over the past few months the unjust and archaic procedures and processes that render the majority of sovereign Member States unequal in this premier multilateral forum that espouses sovereign equality. Another glaringly unfair practice in the existing United Nations system is the underrepresentation of qualified women at the senior management level of the Secretariat.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“For that reason, we urge a timely conclusion to the Preparatory Committee process on the elements of a draft text of an international, legally binding instrument, under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. We look to a secure future for our people, based on the sustainable development, management, conservation and use of our ocean and its resources. We must urgently change the way we think about our ocean and its resources. Transformational change and action must start now. The international community is all too familiar with the constant and increasing calls by Member States and other stakeholders to reform the United Nations system, including the Security Council, so as to reflect today’s global circumstances.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“Papua New Guinea therefore welcomes and endorses the United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 on oceans so as to advance action on the world’s ocean development agenda. Likewise, we commend the United States Government for convening the Our Oceans Conference last week to address those concerns, including through the promotion of partnerships. It is also important to ensure that the activities on the high seas not compromise efforts to conserve and sustainably use ocean resources within our national jurisdiction.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“The health, productivity and resilience of the oceans and seas are increasingly under threat from uncontrolled and poorly regulated human activities, including illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, land-based pollution, plastic and marine debris, and ocean warming and acidification. In order better to address those concerns, my Government recently approved an integrated National Oceans Office, and we are setting in place, in close partnership with our development partners, the necessary policy framework and legislation. At the regional level, under the auspices of the Pacific Islands Forum, our collective support, leadership and advocacy for a healthy, productive and resilient oceans and seas have been harnessed under the region’s Pacific Oceanscape Framework.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“We welcome and congratulate those countries that have ratified the Paris Agreement, and we urge those that have not yet done so to do so, particularly countries that emit high levels of carbon. I am also pleased to inform the Assembly that we have signed a privileges and immunities agreement with the Green Climate Fund yesterday. That will assist in facilitating the funding and support necessary for the implementation of our nationally determined contributions. As an archipelagic State, Papua New Guinea is concerned with the state of the world’s oceans, since a large proportion of our people’s lives and livelihoods, including our cultural heritage, is linked with the oceans and seas.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“For us, development cooperation is also an important element that constitutes 40 per cent of our annual development budget and remains a key component for the successful pursuit of our national development priorities, including the SDGs. For development partners to be meaningful supporters of national SDGs efforts, it is imperative that they align their assistance to national development policies, strategies and plans rather than undertake parallel paths that can be unhelpful. Papua New Guinea is highly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change. Therefore, in order to demonstrate our commitment to combating climate change, we supported the adoption of the Paris Agreement in December 2015, signed it in April 2016, and ratified and deposited the instrument of ratification at the Secretariat yesterday.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“At our national level, we have recently concluded taxation-system reforms so as to strengthen financial resource mobilization in support of our national development agenda. The attainment of the SDGs at the national level is also dependent on the growth and strength of the global economy. The ongoing depressed global economy, with low agricultural commodity prices compared to prices in the petroleum, oil and gas and mineral sectors, continues to constrain our national efforts to achieve sustainable development. We urge concerted global efforts to spur our economic growth so that we can support delivery on the SDGs.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“In that regard, my Government has legislated and is implementing a robust and unprecedented decentralized governance structure that now enables our 89 districts throughout the country to be fully funded and directly involved in identifying, designing and implementing the national development priorities specific to their respective areas. We are engaging the private sector, faith-based organizations and civil-society organizations, which are adding value to our national development. We also stress the importance of mobilizing resources, including financial support from all available sources, so as to be able to deliver on the SDGs nationally. That is why the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on funding for development is pivotal and needs to be fully implemented.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“We are in the process of translating and integrating the SDGs at the national level within the framework of the National Strategy for Responsible Sustainable Development. That is further guided by our medium- term plan and our long-term Vision 2050 development plan for a prosperous nation. My Government recognizes that the 2030 Agenda aligns fully with our current national development priorities with regard to education, health, infrastructure, sustainable economic growth, and law and order, which we are already implementing throughout the country.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“To that end, we appreciate and have supported the first high-level review of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and are committed to ensuring their full implementation in our country and globally as well. Papua New Guinea agrees with the high-level political forum’s outcome, which recognizes that the key to the 2030 Agenda hinges on ensuring national ownership and leadership, multi-stakeholder engagement and partnership, and a paradigm shift away from the business-as-usual modus operandi. My Government is committed to delivering on the SDGs for the people of Papua New Guinea. We are building on the important lessons learned from the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“The year 2016 has been heralded as the year of the implementation of recently adopted international development agreements, in particular the transformative and inclusive 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which underscores the importance of eradicating poverty and ensuring that no one is left behind. It now forms the key driver for multilateral and bilateral cooperation, as well as national engagement, in improving the quality of life for all. We therefore welcome and support the sensible theme for this General Assembly session chosen by the new President. The challenge is to ensure that the 2030 Agenda is led and driven nationally with support, as necessary, from development partners.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“For our part, my country is making a modest contribution through the United Nations peacekeeping operations in South Sudan and Darfur. We stand ready to work with the United Nations and further cooperate in international peacekeeping. We also learned hard but important lessons from our own internal armed conflict in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville two decades ago. We thank the United Nations and other partners for the valuable support provided in resolving that conflict. At the regional level, we continue to effectively support the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands as it transitions to its conclusion next June.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“Papua New Guinea joins the international community in calling on all adversaries in armed conflicts around the world to lay down their arms and resort to peaceful means for the settlement of conflicts. On nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, Papua New Guinea is staunchly opposed to their existence, testing and use. Complete disarmament of those murderous weapons is what the world needs for peace and security. In that regard, Papua New Guinea is concerned over the ongoing nuclear weapons and missile tests carried out by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in contravention of the relevant Security Council resolutions. We strongly condemn such acts, as they threaten regional and global peace and stability.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“Many of today’s ongoing conflicts are also fuelled by the proliferation of firearms, especially small arms and light weapons. We therefore welcome global efforts to regulate the arms trade, which will minimize global conflicts and the displacement of people. The United Nations Charter and the universal and transformative Goal 16 of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development are instructive on the nexus between peace, security and sustainable development for the benefit of humankind. Let us seize this opportunity to work hand in hand in order to resolve the simmering conflicts and tensions that continue tragically to afflict many parts of the world. Those events have dire consequences not only for those directly affected but also for the rest of the international community.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“That includes the rule of law, good governance, capacity-building, economic growth, multi-stakeholder partnerships and national ownership and leadership. Papua New Guinea’s concern for human rights is also demonstrated by our long and proactive membership in the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, which addresses the aspirations for self-determination of colonized peoples and territories. That process must be completed, and our commitment remains undiminished. Papua New Guinea is concerned that the international community, despite all its efforts, is unable to contain the ongoing wars caused by economic, religious, ethnic and other factors, including acts of terrorism. My Government is hopeful that the high- level meetings conducted over this past year will help address many of the root causes of those conflicts.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“As Papua New Guinea embarks on implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other multilateral agreements, we are guided by our National Strategy for Responsible Sustainable Development, our Medium-Term Development Plan and the long-term strategic Vision 2050 development road map as we work towards becoming a prosperous, secure, healthy, peaceful and progressive nation. The importance of ensuring the fundamental and inherent rights of our citizens continues to remain central to that process. For Papua New Guinea, the key to realizing the enhancement of our citizens’ human rights and freedoms while ensuring our fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals also hinges on fostering the right enabling environment.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“In the context of human rights protection and promotion, Papua New Guinea welcomes this morning’s adoption by the Human Rights Council of the set of recommendations for Papua New Guinea’s second universal periodic review. As challenging as they are, my Government is committed to addressing the various issues raised in that report (A/HRC/33/10). Papua New Guinea’s Constitution sets the protection and promotion of human rights as an enduring and sacrosanct principle, to which we remain steadfastly committed. That encompasses all the rights and freedoms articulated in the Charter of the United Nations and particularly the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as other human rights treaty obligations under international law.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“We are committed to being part of the global solution to the affront to the dignity of humanity and human rights imposed by forced migration. We pledge to act together with the international community to address not only the root causes of that issue, but also to better assist the affected victims and impacted countries of origin, transit and destination. The desire to halt the inhumanity and indignity must be our moral compass. We therefore commend and support the strong leadership shown by the Secretary-General and other leaders of the world in directly addressing that serious issue, particularly through the World Humanitarian Summit and other relevant meetings on migrants and refugees.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“My Government in Papua New Guinea — in accordance with our international human rights obligations and in close partnership with Australia — hosts, on a humanitarian basis, a regional processing centre on the island of Manus for asylum-seekers who have made perilous journeys from troubled areas of the world, including the Middle East and Asia. That bilateral arrangement has not been without its controversies. My Government has accepted the decision of our Supreme Court earlier this year to close down the facility, as the arrangement was found to be unconstitutional. My Government is now in the process of dismantling that facility and looking at other arrangements with Australia to resettle those refugees who do not wish to settle in Papua New Guinea.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“Many of our countries, including my own, have not been spared from the adverse impact of the global situation, and we continue to reel from them. Those challenges are unlikely to be overcome in the short term or by individual countries on their own. That reminds us all of the importance of ensuring that we, the peoples of the United Nations, renew and strengthen our resolve and faith in the letter and spirit of the Charter of the United Nations. The ongoing sad plight of millions of refugees and migrants — including internally displaced persons and those that have paid the ultimate sacrifice with their lives — should not and cannot become the new normal. No country is immune from the implications of that increasing global concern.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“Papua New Guinea appreciates and applauds the outgoing President of the General Assembly, His Excellency Mogens Lykketoft, for his outstanding guidance of the General Assembly in the conduct of its business this past year. Papua New Guinea is delighted to see a Pacific Islander presiding for the first time over the General Assembly at this session as its seventy-first President, and joins the international community in congratulating His Excellency Ambassador Peter Thomson on his historic election. We wish him a successful presidency. We gather here before the sombre backdrop of a world that is beset with multidimensional humanitarian, political, economic, social, peace and security and environmental challenges on a scale that is unprecedented in recent memory.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“Indeed, by learning to save our environment, perhaps we can once again learn how to save ourselves and guarantee a better world for our future generations.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“The old ways allowed them to survive but did not prepare their children for an increasingly complex future. They now struggle with schools that cannot afford the best teachers and with health centres that provide only basic medicines. Yet those communities still remember how to live sustainably — a skill that many others have forgotten in the rush to get ahead. But there is hope. Bold leadership is required on both sides of the economic divide to transform the way in which we value our environment and create wealth for rural populations. As leaders, we must understand that, while we may have inherited the Earth from our forefathers, we have in fact borrowed it from our grandchildren and our future generations.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“Some countries make billions by selling fossil fuels that pollute our atmosphere, others by producing low-cost consumer products that humanity does not require. In fact, Google is worth $150 billion, while the world’s last great tropical forests left standing are worth nothing. How can that be right? Together, we must reconstruct our value frameworks. New environmental markets must support tropical countries striving to achieve sustainable development, by generating billions from rainforest ecosystem services that humanity has so far been exploiting for free. Several communities in my country have voted to cancel their logging concessions, telling me that the forests and rivers have provided all they needed for thousands of years. In some ways, however, they now feel trapped.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“Faced by the ravages of climate change on a small island developing State, our Prime Minister, Sir Michael Somare, has charted out his own bold goals: reducing Papua New Guinea’s emissions by 50 per cent before 2025 and achieving carbon neutrality before 2050. Sharing a similar vision, the partnership of leadership between Papua New Guinea and Norway may significantly address several of the greatest A/63/PV.13 5 08-53122 challenges of our time: effectively valuing global environmental services, contributing to the mitigation of climate change, conserving global biodiversity and financing the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in rural areas. Finally, our global economy values companies in the billions simply for advertising trinkets on the Internet.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“So, with today’s price of more than $30 per ton of carbon dioxide, rural communities are effectively subsidizing the carbon emissions of the rich to the tune of approximately $100 billion per year — more than total annual official development assistance. Norway has provided great leadership towards that necessary paradigm shift. First, Norway has stood up against global climate change and has targeted the achievement of carbon neutrality by 2030. Norway has also dedicated $2.8 billion to offset emissions reductions resulting from deforestation in developing countries, through the valuation of forest ecosystem services.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“The international commodity markets, in fact, have hardly changed from colonial times. In many ways, those two economic relics are increasingly perverse and nonsensical. The environment is devastated, rural communities stay poor and the rich shift the blame. They cite lack of governance and corruption, but those are not drivers of deforestation, but symptoms of obsolete market constructs. Therefore, global leaders must redraft economic theory and reinvent global markets for a sustainable future. For example, the latest estimate is that approximately $20 billion a year will be needed to halve carbon emissions resulting from deforestation. However, that would be a wise investment, even for that one ecosystem service alone. Forests sequester some 3.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“Let me use the issue of reducing deforestation and forest degradation — an issue that our Prime Minister, Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, has championed internationally — as an example. Deforestation is a complex subject, but, put simply, it is driven by the fact that the world values forests more dead than alive. Traditional economic theory, which considers ecosystem services a common good and thus free to all, is primarily responsible for the massive loss of the world’s forests. With those ecosystem services valued at zero, rural communities that depend on and care for forests must make a living in other ways. Keeping the land forested means sacrificing the opportunities to be gained by converting it to other uses, such as producing commodities such as timber, palm oil, coffee and cocoa.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“Let me be specific. First, we cannot account for the environment as an externality. Our natural environment and its services are not free to society. Once we lose those services, often irreversibly, the costs can be significant. Secondly, we must create a broad framework for ecosystem service markets. Carbon sequestration must only be the first step, followed by valuations for biodiversity, water purification, rainfall generation, crop pollination and food security. Thirdly, we must now view our natural environment as an engine for wealth creation. Those valuable ecosystem services must be transformed into lasting wealth that supports the rural communities that have traditionally cared for those assets.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“We also partner with the Coral Triangle Initiative on coral reefs, fisheries and food security, and the Forest-11 Group, launched last year by His Excellency the President of Indonesia. Another important partnership is with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, facilitated by the Clinton Foundation, in the area of HIV/AIDS and the provision of antiretrovirals. To succeed, we must significantly scale up our partnerships. Often, we all tend to wallow in the negative — environmental degradation, catastrophic climate change, crippling poverty, ineffective governance — rather than leveraging the positive. My Government’s vision is to transform those societal challenges into a framework for environmentally and socially sustainable economic growth. It is time to cast off policy chains of the past and create a new paradigm for the future.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“Ultimately, reducing poverty, expanding access to education and health and empowering women through economic and social participation are what we in my Government are addressing. A/63/PV.13 08-53122 4 Millennium Development Goal 8 makes reference to partnerships. We strongly believe that Goal is critical to the achievement of the other seven. We believe, however, that all partnerships must be underpinned by mutual respect among the partners. For that reason, let me highlight some key partnerships. Our partnerships with Australia, New Zealand, the European Union, Japan, China, Italy, Austria and many non-governmental organizations continue to contribute strongly to Papua New Guinea’s development.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“We are looking to expand the project nationwide during the Africa Caribbean Pacific-European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly, to be held in Papua New Guinea in November. In partnership with UNICEF, we have also introduced proactive programmes aimed at accelerating the girl-child’s access to education. In the area of health, there remain major challenges, such as maternal mortality and HIV/AIDS, which the Government is now addressing through the 10-year national health plan. We have also recorded some positive results in other major health indicators, including a decrease in malaria incidence and in malaria-related deaths, and the stabilization and decline of infant and child mortality.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“We have had steady economic growth in the last five years, due to prudent economic management that has resulted in five successive budget surpluses. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals remains an integral development priority for my Government. We have set ourselves 15 national targets and 67 indicators, which have been integrated into our medium-term development strategy and sectoral plans. For example, Papua New Guinea recognizes that education is a prerequisite for the betterment of our people’s lives. That is entrenched in our constitution and prioritized under a 10-year national education plan. The current one-laptop-per-child pilot project will make learning accessible, enjoyable and fruitful for our children, while bridging the digital divide.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“For that reason, we commend the Secretary-General for convening the high-level meeting on the MDGs during the present session of the General Assembly. However, for the MDGs to be effectively implemented, they must be addressed consistent with national circumstances and with host-country leadership. Further, for the MDGs to be effective over the long term, developing countries must take ownership of the Goals. At the midway point of MDG implementation, for Papua New Guinea, we believe there is cause for cautious optimism. Papua New Guinea celebrated 33 years of unbroken constitutional democracy on 16 September this year. Due to the political stability achieved by my Government, we can now afford to plan long-term for our own development.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“On other regional issues, Papua New Guinea commends the work done so far on the Pacific Plan for Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Integration, which we believe may catalyse our region’s development. It is Papua New Guinea’s strong view that Member States from the Pacific region should be categorized separately by the United Nations in terms of aggregated data and in the area of social and economic classification. While Papua New Guinea is ready, we can support Vanuatu’s call for an extension to the May 2009 deadline for submissions on an extended continental shelf. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide us with one of the greatest opportunities to leverage our development process.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“We therefore call upon the international community to act urgently in order to ensure the security and welfare of small island developing States. As a thriving democracy in the Pacific, Papua New Guinea desires to see our friends and neighbours in the Pacific and beyond enjoy freedom and prosperity. In that regard, and consistent with the decision of the leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum, Papua New Guinea strongly encourages Fiji to restore parliamentary democracy by preparing for elections and holding them in 2009. However, Fiji must be supported throughout, and not isolated in its efforts to address its specific national circumstances.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“We therefore welcome the recent consensus to initiate the intergovernmental negotiating process to properly address the long-standing but critical issue of United Nations reform. We live in a world that provides us many opportunities, as well as formidable development challenges. The challenges include addressing the destructive effects of the illicit use of small arms and light weapons and the need to address globalization and food and energy security, which lead into the wider issue of human security. Additionally, the adverse impacts of climate change and global warming continue to threaten the existence of many small island States, especially due to rising sea levels. For many small island States, sea level rise and the adverse impacts of climate change are security issues threatening their very survival.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“United Nations reforms need to be carried out in all the relevant areas of the system. We need to address the international gender architecture to make it more robust, responsive and effective. It has to be part of the core reform process to cater for women, youth and children. We must also be vigilant against terrorism and threats to international peace and security. The One UN system needs to be translated more meaningfully in order to effectively enhance each Member State’s development priorities. We support the call for the reform of the Security Council in both the permanent and non-permanent A/63/PV.13 3 08-53122 categories of membership. A number of emerging developing countries need to be accorded permanent status on the Council to better reflect today’s circumstances.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)
“On behalf of my people and the Government of Papua New Guinea, I bring the General Assembly warm greetings and pledge our support to you, Mr. President, as you guide us in our work. We also wish to thank Mr. Kerim, your predecessor, for his strong advocacy during his tenure as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-second session, especially in the area of climate change. We also support Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations in general, especially its agencies, in the work they do to enhance our development aspirations in Papua New Guinea. As we have always done, my Government continues to support the United Nations. The United Nations currently provides the world forum for Member States to address the many global issues we face together.”
2008-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 63 (2008)