Fed: Downer confident of lasting peace in Bougainville
Foreign Minister ALEXANDER DOWNER has marked the first anniversary of the BougainvillePeace Agreement by saying he's confident it will last.
Mr DOWNER says the peace process isn't over -- with a more challenging phase of surrenderingweapons still underway.
But he says the peace agreement has been a wonderful achievement by Papua New Guinea,Australia and New Zealand.
And he says Australia and New Zealand are still maintaining the peace monitoring groupon Bougainville.
Mr DOWNER says the war in Bougainville was the bloodiest in the South Pacific since World War II.
AAP RTV sm/daw/gjr/rp
KEYWORD: PNG BOUGAINVILLE (CANBERRA)
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