UN General Assembly
2023

Today we meet against the global backdrop of development indices at the national and international levels that all point in the wrong direction, and the road ahead is not easy for all of us. That therefore requires our individual and collective partnerships for our people, prosperity and planet. For Papua New Guinea, we continue to face a daunting situation vis-a-vis building back better in the aftermath of the coronavirus disease pandemic. That is compounded by the worsening climate crisis, the adverse socioeconomic and supply-chain-related impacts of the unacceptable war waged against Ukraine, the financial and economic burdens arising from the existing unfair and archaic international financial system and our own domestic challenges, which include economic growth, debt sustainability, meeting our people’s basic needs and providing social protection.