{"id":55410,"date":"2023-05-23T13:27:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T04:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/23\/papua-new-guinea-pm-james-marape-antony-blinken-us-png-defence-security-deal"},"modified":"2023-05-23T13:27:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T04:27:58","slug":"papua-new-guinea-wont-be-base-for-war-to-be-launched-says-pm-after-us-security-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55410","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea won\u2019t be base \u2018for war to be launched\u2019, says PM, after US security deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Marape says agreement has clause saying Pacific country is not to be \u2018used as a place for launching offensive military operations\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea will not be used as a base for \u201cwar to be launched\u201d, prime minister James Marape has said, as the Pacific country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/22\/us-png-defence-security-agreement-papua-new-guinea-china-india-modi-pacific-militarisation-concerns\">signed a defence agreement with the US<\/a> amid a race against China for influence in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Marape said on Tuesday the agreement \u2013 which he said he would release in full for public scrutiny on Thursday \u2013 prohibited \u201coffensive military operations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/23\/papua-new-guinea-pm-james-marape-antony-blinken-us-png-defence-security-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Marape says agreement has clause saying Pacific country is not to be \u2018used as a place for launching offensive military operations\u2019Papua New Guinea will not be used as a base for \u201cwar to be launched\u201d, prime minister James Marape has said, as the P&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55410","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55411,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55410\/revisions\/55411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}