SYDNEY Dec 11 Kyodo Australia wil...

SYDNEY Dec 11 Kyodo

Australia will emit up to 230 police officers and 65 officials and specialists to Papua recent Guinea to help the financially stricken Pacific island land restore law and order and 1 government spending, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Thursday.

The minister and his Papua strange Guinea counterpart Rabbie Namaliu finalized the arrangements, outlined in an agreement signed in Port Moresby in September, at an annual ministerial meeting between the brace countries in Adelaide on Thursday.

Australian police and advisers will start work in Papua strange Guinea early next year, a spokesman for Downer told Kyodo News

The assistance package will outlay Australia A$800 million (US$589 million) across five years, on top of its annual aid to Papua modern Guinea of A$350 million, he said.

The historic cooperation signified a ''new era'' of partnership between the sum of two units countries that will help Papua of the present day Guinea address its solution challenges, Downer said in a statement.

Australia is zealous to help the nation of 5 million populace which has been plagued with gang violence and corruption, from becoming a failed state like the Solomon Islands where Australia l a 2000-strong regional intervention force earlier this year.

Australian police personnel will work with the Royal Papua modern Guinea Constabulary in Port Moresby, Bougainville, Lae, soar Hagen and on the Highlands Highway to make secure local officers are better equipped and skilled, Downer said.

Up to another 18 Australian specialists will work in non-policing law and justice agencies, including in the position of solicitor general.

Up to 36 officials will work in sway economic, finance, planning and spending agencies to help Papua recently made known Guinea focus its public sector of 75000 employee Downer said.

Ten officials will help streamline the country's immigration services, border and transport security and management and aviation safety.

Australia's propose of assistance was initially dismissed as colonialism by way of Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare, still it appears his country's necessitys have trumped his personal feelings.

Australia and Papua fresh Guinea also used the ministerial meeting to infer a memorandum of understanding forward counterterrorism.

Australia has already established counterterrorism agreements with Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Fiji, Cambodia, East Timor and India.

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