UN General Assembly
2024

Consistent with your theme, Christianity in PNG has been the front runner of unity, bearing messages of peace and sustainable co-existence to embrace diversity of cultures, languages and tribes into one human family, living in the natural habitat as God’s creation. Since then, Christian churches have contributed immensely to our country’s development through their education and health programs. Real Christianity teaches Love, Peace, Unity, Forgiveness and continues to give meaning to the mission to ‘Leave No One Behind’. Whilst PNG is identified as a Christian nation, I want to assure you all, that Section 45 of PNG’s Constitution protects individual’s right to choose their practice of faith and religion. We subscribe strongly to Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion. United Nations has been the anchor of this God-given right of humanity, and I offer my country’s support to the protection of individual’s choice and rights to practice their faith, and urge that, this remains a key duty of the United Nations.