The ABG President Mr James Tanis is in Port Moresby rallying the support of the Papua New Guinea government and the International Community on the latest moves by his government to fast track the weapons disposal program on Bougainville.
He has so far succeeded in moving from where the last President left the weapons disposal process three years ago and has already talked with the Papua New Guinea National government on ways to fast track the process.
All other stakeholders including the UN, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom had been approached through their High Commission offices and are ready to work with the ABG and the Papua New Guinea National Government to speed up the process of reconciliation and weapons disposal.
The ABG delegation also met with other groups, including the big mobile phone company Digicel on their program to cover all of Bougainville with mobile phone services. Digicel has already covered many parts of Bougainville even the Morgan roadblock and beyond Panguna.
After Mr Tanis's meeting with the Digicel CEO today, the company will move next week to connect its voice and data services.
Story by Aloysius Laukai
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