India offers $100 mil., military, medical and infrastructure aid to Papua New Guinea

[Kickstarter101]

India on Friday offered a $100 million line of credit for development of infrastructure in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and agreed to jointly develop new avenues of cooperation to explore and develop the Pacific nation’s vast oil and gas resources.

India also offered a coastal surveillance radar system and Coast Guard patrol vessels to the country as part of its commitment for the mutual maritime security initiative.

India also announced providing retro-viral drugs and equipment for the treatment of 20,000 HIV patients in PNG for a period of one year.

 

[Spectre]

India on Friday offered a $100 million line of credit for development of infrastructure in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and agreed to jointly develop new avenues of cooperation to explore and develop the Pacific nation’s vast oil and gas resources.

India also offered a coastal surveillance radar system and Coast Guard patrol vessels to the country as part of its commitment for the mutual maritime security initiative.

India also announced providing retro-viral drugs and equipment for the treatment of 20,000 HIV patients in PNG for a period of one year.

PNG is important, keeping in view the Australians.

 

[Kickstarter101]

PNG is important, keeping in view the Australians.

Why Australia?

BTW the link:

http://m.thehindu.com/business/indi...infrastructure-fund-to-png/article8536807.ece

 

[Spectre]

Why Australia?

BTW the link:

http://m.thehindu.com/business/indi...infrastructure-fund-to-png/article8536807.ece

Of-course other factors are much more relevant but PNG is also an important leverage on Australia keeping view their shared history and geography.

 

[ebrahym]

India on Friday offered a $100 million line of credit for development of infrastructure in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and agreed to jointly develop new avenues of cooperation to explore and develop the Pacific nation’s vast oil and gas resources.

India also offered a coastal surveillance radar system and Coast Guard patrol vessels to the country as part of its commitment for the mutual maritime security initiative.

India also announced providing retro-viral drugs and equipment for the treatment of 20,000 HIV patients in PNG for a period of one year.

it is good indian given the geography of PNG .......... well if in near future they managed to get a naval base there ..... it wud be a pain for chinese

 

[Vyom]

India on Friday offered a $100 million line of credit for development of infrastructure in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and agreed to jointly develop new avenues of cooperation to explore and develop the Pacific nation’s vast oil and gas resources.

India also offered a coastal surveillance radar system and Coast Guard patrol vessels to the country as part of its commitment for the mutual maritime security initiative.

India also announced providing retro-viral drugs and equipment for the treatment of 20,000 HIV patients in PNG for a period of one year.

For a population of 7 million, that is a substantial Aid.

 

[Kickstarter101]

it is good indian given the geography of PNG .......... well if in near future they managed to get a naval base there ..... it wud be a pain for chinese

I think its more to do with oil and gas under PNG rather than China

For a population of 7 million, that is a substantial Aid.

But does PNG with 7 mil. pop. actually have 20,000 HIV patients?

 

[Vyom]

But does PNG with 7 mil. pop. actually have 20,000 HIV patients?

With 1.28 percent of the adult population estimated by UNAIDS to be HIV -positive in 2006, Papua New Guinea has one of the most serious HIV/AIDS epidemics in the Asia-Pacific subregion. Although this new prevalence rate is significantly lower than the 2005 UNAIDS estimate of 1.8 percent, it is considered to reflect improvements in surveillance rather than a shrinking epidemic. Papua New Guinea accounts for 70 percent of the subregion's HIV cases and is the fourth country (after Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma) to be classified as having a generalized HIV epidemic.

LINK :
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/aids/Countries/asia/papua_new_guinea_profile.pdf