Melanesian Spearhead Group Secretariat
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MSG Secretariat Advance Team prepare for DG's meeting with PNG Government.
Mr. Peter Eafeare, Deputy DG, MSG Secretariat (centre) with Ms. Maggie Moihe Director General Bilaterial Division PNG Dept of Foreign Affairs and staff of MSG and PNGDFA
06 July 2019
Preparations are underway in Port Moresby as MSG Secretariat Advance Team led by Mr. Peter Eafeare, Deputy Director General, Mr. Romulo Nayacalevu, Program Manager Governance & Legal Affairs and Mr. Christopher Waiwori, Senior Executive Officer paid a courtesy visit to Ms. Magdalene Moihe Director General Bilateral Division and Mr. Simon Maino, Foreign Service Officer, PNG Department of Foreign Affairs.
The Advance Team are there to finalise the agenda for the Director General Ambassador Amena Yauvoli’s meetings with Honorable James Marape, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea and Chair of the Melanesian Spearhead Group and key Government Ministers and Officials next week.
The meetings will focus on the need to convene a Special Summit of Leaders to deliberate on a host of important mandates that requires Leaders consensus and guidance that are embedded in the Secretariat’s Annual Work Programme. These include activities in the five programme areas covering the Work Programme of the Secretariat. One such mandate, amongst others, is the operationalisation of the MSG Free Trade Agreement that is now awaiting Leaders endorsement for its ratification and implementation.