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PNG
abbreviation
Papua New Guinea (international car registration)
Example Sentences
The deal ensures China will not have the same access to infrastructure in PNG as it does in other Pacific Islands, said Oliver Nobetau, project director of the Lowy Institute's Australia-PNG network.
With nearly 12 million people, PNG is the largest and most populous South Pacific nation.
PNG Prime Minister James Marape, who signed this latest agreement with his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese on Monday, stressed the deal was not born out of geopolitics.
PNG has been "transparent" with China, Marape said while in Canberra.
The Pukpuk Treaty, named after the word for "crocodile" in PNG pidgin, notes that an armed attack on either country would be "dangerous to the other's peace and security", so both should "act to meet the common danger".
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