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Australia and Papua New Guinea signed a mutual defence treaty today elevating their relationship to a formal alliance for the first time, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declaring up to 10,000 Papua New Guineans could eventually serve in the Australian Defence Force under the historic agreement.
The Papua New Guinea-Australia Mutual Defence Treaty, dubbed the “Pukpuk Treaty,” represents Australia’s first new military alliance in more than 70 years since the ANZUS pact with the United States and New Zealand in 1951, and Papua New Guinea’s first defence alliance with any country in its 50-year history as an independent nation.
“This treaty elevates the relationship between our two nations to the status of an alliance. It is Australia’s first new alliance in more than 70 years and only the third in our history,” Albanese said at a signing ceremony in Canberra with PNG Prime Minister James Marape.
The treaty contains mutual defence obligations mirroring ANZUS commitments, with both nations declaring that an armed attack on either would constitute a danger to both and committing to act together to meet any common threat.
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