Prime
Minister Peter O’Neill yesterday attended the presidential Inauguration
of the newly-elected President of the Republic of Indonesia, H.E. Joko Widodo,
in Jakarta.
He travelled to Jakarta on Sunday after briefly meeting with his Australian counterpart, Tony Abbot, to
discuss the Regional Resettlement
Arrangement (RRA) in Manus and strengthening of the
presence of the Australian Federal Police in PNG.
The Australian Prime Minister was travelling en route to
Jakarta to attend the same event, when he stopped by to meet with O’Neill to
discuss these issues.
Both leaders were invited to the Inauguration in Jakarta.
Also in attendance were Heads of Government from the region and globally.
O’Neill
will meet with President Widodo this morning to make his official
acquaintance as well as discuss the Plan of Action to implementation of eleven
MoU’s on trade and
investment relations, business cooperation, border development and
administration, development and technical cooperation and air services which
were concluded during his official visit to Indonesia in June 2013.
In regional and international issues, Prime
Minister O’Neill will seek reaffirmation of Indonesia's
support for PNG's hosting of the APEC Leaders Summit in 2018.
He
returns to PNG on this evening in time for the October Parliamentary
session.
The Prime Minister was accompanied by Ministers, Rimbink Pato
(Foreign Affairs) and Ben Micah (State Enterprises).
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