BOUGAINVILLE?S two key leaders last Friday came together and...

BOUGAINVILLE?S two key leaders last Friday came together and shook hands to show their people they were ?one again? and working together to move Bougainville forward.
Autonomous Bougainville Govern-ment President John Momis and Bougainville Affairs and Trade Minister Fidelis Semoso jointly held a press conference on Friday to tell the people of Papua New Guinea and Bougainville that they were together in moving the region forward this year and in the years to come.
Witnessed by divisional chief executive officers, ministers and Parliament members, the media was called in to a joint press conference to show the world these two leaders have made peace and that they no longer had any issues.
?We have a renewed partnership and friendship and we want to tell the people of Bougainville that we will now have a good working relationship to move Bougainville forward for the next five years,? Mr Momis said.
?Mi nogat hevi long Minister Semoso. I want to tell the National Government that we don?t have a hidden agenda. This year, we will now have to concentrate on the Bougainville Peace Agreement.?
Mr Semoso said Bougainville had no choice but to honour the Peace Agreement and work towards it, Momis advised he now had a renewed working relationship with Semoso and basically the National Government to move Bougainville towards referendum and address the issue of the Panguna mine.
?We don?t have a choice, we are bound by the Bougainville Peace Agreement,? Mr Semoso said.
?We don?t have much time anymore, we have a specific timeframe. Our core function is to discuss the delivery of goods and services to the people who gave us the mandate to lead them.?
The National Government and the ABG are partners and they are bound by the BPA to move Bougainville forward.