Bougainville - Radio OZ - 20 Apr 99



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Radio Australia - World News - 20 April 99

 PNG PM says Bougainville negotiations should be held in PNG 

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Bill Skate says future negotiations 
between Bougainville leaders should be held in PNG, rather than overseas.

 Mr Skate was speaking on the way to a Bougainville leaders' meeting in the
 New Zealand city of Rotorua.

The New Zealand Government has facilitated the meeting, hoping to encourage
a breakthrough in stalled negotiations on Bougainville's political future.

 Mr Skate says New Zealand has played an important role brokering the
Bougainville peace agreement, but future meetings must be held inside Papua
New Guinea.

 The Prime Minister says the peace process must be able to progress at home
 if it is to succeed.

 Leaders of various Bougainville factions have been in New Zealand holding
talks and studying Maori economic development, in an initiative designed to
breathe new life into the peace process.

(c) 1999 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Tue Apr 20 14:45:01 1999 ( AEST ) 
 
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