United States President Joe Biden will sign defence and surveillance agreements with Papua New Guinea, the island nation’s foreign minister says, on a visit that renews the strategic importance of the nation where his uncle died in World War II.
US development assistance to PNG, the South Pacific’s most populous nation, will also double to $US32 million ($47 million), including $US25 million ($37 million) to tackle its security priority of climate change, State Department documents submitted to the US Congress show.
