{"id":48021,"date":"2022-08-31T12:48:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T03:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/31\/papua-new-guinea-hopes-to-have-australia-security-deal-signed-by-end-of-year"},"modified":"2022-08-31T12:48:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T03:48:16","slug":"papua-new-guinea-hopes-to-have-australia-security-deal-signed-by-end-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48021","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea hopes to have Australia security deal signed by end of year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s foreign minister says China\u2019s interest in the Pacific required a \u2018strengthened\u2019 PNG-Australia treaty<\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea hopes to sign a security deal with Australia, as well as possibly New Zealand and the US, by the end of the year, the country\u2019s foreign minister Justin Tkatchenko has said.<\/p>\n<p>Tkatchenko said the security treaty with Australia has been in the works since 2019, but that the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/14\/we-needed-china-deal-to-protect-domestic-security-says-key-solomon-islands-official\">security deal struck between China and Solomon Island<\/a>s would require Australia and Papua New Guinea to strengthen the treaty.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/31\/papua-new-guinea-hopes-to-have-australia-security-deal-signed-by-end-of-year\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s foreign minister says China\u2019s interest in the Pacific required a \u2018strengthened\u2019 PNG-Australia treatyPapua New Guinea hopes to sign a security deal with Australia, as well as possibly New Zealand and the US, by the end of the year, the country&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1887,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48022,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48021\/revisions\/48022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}