UN General Assembly
1976

116. The one area in which the Papua New Guinea Government does not intend to pursue universalism is in respect to regimes which pursue apartheid or racialist* policies which are unacceptable to us. The Papua New Guinea Government has not and will not recognize, or have any dealings whatever with, countries which practise these policies. We endorse the work of the decolonization Committee2 in seeking self-determination for all peoples in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. 117. I have mentioned before that Papua New Guinea has recognized both the North Korean and South Korean Governments. We desire most earnestly, for the sake of the future security of the region in which we live, that these two Governments should commence a dialogue between themselves which will result in a peaceful solution to the present uneasy situation. We would, further, wish to see both those Governments represented in the United Nations as equal sovereign States.