 Prime Minister O'Neill, thank you for talking to the Lowy Institute. Thank you, Sean. Nice to see you again. Later this year, Papua New Guinea will be hosting the Pacific Island Forum Leaders' Meeting. Fiji's Prime Minister, Bani Marama, has said he's not going to attend until what he calls the undue influence of Australia and New Zealand is eliminated. How are you going to deal with this issue? We hope that Prime Minister Bani Marama finds his way to come to Papua New Guinea and is very much part of the Pacific as much as Australia and New Zealand. We have always stated Papua New Guinea's position is very clear. We can't change where we are. Australia and New Zealand are part of the Pacific community. They are integral part of the Pacific Island Forum. They have been there since the inception. They continue to play a leading role in the community in so far as providing the support and technical skills that some of the Pacific Island countries continue to demand. That is why they will continue to be part of the forum. I hope the Fijian Prime Minister finds his way through all these issues that he's got with Australia and New Zealand. It is their bilateral relationship with Fiji. They need to sit down and work through it rather than engaging with the entire Pacific community trying to mend those relationships. You have raised the issue of human rights of the Melanesians in Papua and West Papua and you've just hosted this meeting with the Indonesian President. This issue of West Papua and Papua is a hugely emotional one in Melanesia. How are you going to deal with Indonesia on this? Firstly, many of the other Melanesians, particularly in Papua New Guinea and Fiji and Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, we have very limited engagement with the Papuan provinces, the five Melanesian provinces in Indonesia, where half of our Melanesian population live there, about 11 million people. Our engagement has been very limited and my aim has been trying to make sure that the people-to-people relationship is established, more cultural exchanges are taking place, more trade and investment are taking place between all these communities and of course we are trying to encourage their participation in the region, especially at the sub-regional level, that is the Melanesians Pied Group. So Indonesia, of course through the President, I've accepted that that is the way to move forward. They have agreed that Indonesia should become an associate member of the MSG, not for Indonesia itself and the entire Indonesian government to participate in it, but to enable the five Melanesian provinces to engage more meaningfully with the rest of the Melanesian community. That is why we are encouraged by the way forward because we believe that this is a major step towards the relationship that we are trying to achieve with our West Papuan community. So this effort by this umbrella group of free West Papuan groups, they're not going to get into the MSG? With due respect to many of the interest of groups on West Papua, there is no single unified voice for that community. We only have to deal through an elected representatives and that is through the governors who manage those provinces and those governors are Melanesians and they are duly elected by the people and I think it is only fair that they come and participate in the MSG organization and we engage with them and build step-by-step relationship with our brothers and sisters on the other side of the border. In the Australian budget, aid has been cut, but Papua Nguni was not cut as much as the rest. I think it only went down by five percent and Papua Nguni again is the largest recipient of Australian aid, but aid isn't all the relationship, is it? How do you see the relationship in this 40th year of independence progressing? We need to continue to work at it because of the... sometimes the challenges the global community faces, especially through the downturn in the economic commodity prices which we understand is affecting the Australian economy as well. So the cuts are understood by Papua Nguni. We understand the priorities of the Australian government. As you know, the take for the portion of the aid budget, aid support that goes to Papua Nguni is a very small portion of our budget, so we are now working closely with the Australian government to prioritize those efforts into areas we believe that are in line with our own priorities in Papua Nguni. So it is clearly understood and we will continue to work with the Australian government. Of course, there's always heating problems about close neighbors when we have to address issues like Bougainville. Recently, through that budget papers, we hear that they are trying to organize an office of a consulate in Bucca. That is without consultation. We appreciate the efforts in Bougainville, but Bougainville is still an integral part of Papua Nguni. There must be due respect about the territorial integrity of Papua Nguni and that given the sensitivities of Bougainville, any dealings with Bougainville must come through our government and that is the position that we have. So that is a real concern that they have announced this without any consultation prior? Well, certainly it won't happen because there is no consultation. As I said, whilst we appreciate some of the efforts in trying to restore basic services back in Bougainville, they must work through our government and our government agencies. There is no other way. I don't think that for anybody it's good that we put issues before us that we know are going to have difficulties between our relationship and we have been supporting Australia in many other issues, particularly like the asylum issue and other issues at the global level. The attempt to get membership of the United Nations Security Council, Papua Nguni, has been leading the campaign for Australia. Those are partnerships that are bearing good positive outcomes. But I think when we know that we have sensitivities around some issues without proper consultation and embarking on such a proposition is unacceptable to us. Prime Minister, thank you very much. Thank you, Sean. Nice to see you again.