Belden Namah causes Australian PM to cancel PNG visit, says PM Marape

 Papua New Guinea Prime Minister  James Marape says the "recklessness" of Opposition Leader Belden Namah has caused Australian Prime Minister Hon. Scott Morrison to cancel his planned visit here next week.

Prime Minister Morrison had planned to visit Papua New Guinea on his way back to Australia from Japan, meeting Prime Minister James Marape.

"It was to be an important face-to-face meeting with us planning to watch the State of Origin game," Prime Minister Marape said.

"The visit, however, has been hijacked by Belden Namah through his selfish no-confidence move against me.

"The country must know that Namah caused the cancellation of the visit by the Australian PM, who planned to visit us before this vote of no-confidence and related events were mooted ,

"People of PNG must know that Namah is a 'leader' who claims to represent their interests, however, causes instability by stopping Australia - our biggest bilateral partner - from coming in.

" That’s recklessness of the highest order. "

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