![]() ![]() “We welcome you to the Pacific, to PNG and thank you for coming to Port Moresby.” Marape thanked Blinken and welcomed him saying that, “whilst short, your visit demonstrates your country’s commitment to further enhance and add value to our existing bilateral ties with the view to progressing it to the next level”. “I am grateful to be here and want to hear from all of you, on how we can do better and improve the US Pacific relationship,” he said.īlinken also conveyed Biden’s invitation to Pacific Islands leaders to visit Washington, DC, later this year for the second US summit with the Pacific Islands Forum. “We also have have shared priorities such as tackling the climate crisis, advancing inclusive economic growth for the people of the Pacific Islands, and highlighting the US commitment to realise a prosperous, resilient, and secure Pacific Islands region.” Biden would have become the first sitting US president to visit a Pacific island, but he cancelled to focus on debt limit talks in Washington, prompting concerns about how reliable a partner the US is in the Pacific.īlinken said that the US and the Pacific shared a long history, “and whilst we get inspiration from the past, today is not about the past, but the future, and how we can work together. Earlier, Modi wrote on social media he had discussed “ways to augment cooperation in commerce, technology, healthcare and in addressing climate change” in a bilateral meeting with Marape on Monday.īlinken arrived in Port Moresby around 1am on Monday, travelling in Biden’s place after the US president was forced to cancel his plans to make a brief but historic stop there to sign the pact. India was committed to a free and open Indo-Pacific, he said. Modi told the 14 leaders of the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation that India would be a reliable partner to small island states amid difficulties caused by supply chain disruptions and the climate crisis. Marape hailed India as the “leader of the global south” and promised to rally behind it as Modi held a summit there with Pacific island leaders. PNG also welcomed India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, on Monday. In response to news of Blinken’s visit to PNG, China warned against the introduction of “geopolitical games” to the region. Students at several universities have held protests against the signing of the agreement, amid concerns it will upset China. Civil society groups and student unions have raised concerns over the defence cooperation agreement, with talks of protests spreading online over the weekend. However, many in the Pacific are concerned about the increasing militarisation of the region and that Papua New Guinea could be stuck between an increasingly hostile US and China. It was the site of fierce battles during the second world war, and with a population of nearly 10 million people, is the most populous Pacific island nation. PNG’s location just north of Australia makes it strategically significant. Photograph: APīlinken told Pacific Leaders that the US was here to listen and find ways on how they can improve and do better in helping the Pacific. No animation: Unlike the older GIF format (which is also lossless), PNG images don't support looping animations.Narendra Modi and James Marape in Port Moresby on Monday.This allows irregular images, illustrations, and logos to sit on top of a background color. ![]() Supports transparency: PNG allows you to specify a transparent background, which is essential for illustrators and graphic designers.Lossless: Unlike many other file formats, including JPG, PNG uses a lossless compression algorithm that results in a high image quality.Format of choice on the web: Many websites rely on PNG for rendering images on its webpages.Here are the main characteristics of the PNG format. While JPG is the format of choice for consumers, especially for storing images in digital cameras, PNG is more popular among professionals in web design, and in fact is the successor to the now largely obsolete GIF format. The PNG format is an alternative to the slightly better-known JPG file. PNG, short for Portable Network Graphics, is a high-quality graphic file format that you can view in almost any graphic program, image viewer, or web browser.
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