Papua New Guinea’s Asean bid faces a long road 


KUALA LUMPUR: Papua New Guinea’s bid to join Asean may be raised at the 58th Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting (AMM), but analysts expect a long and winding road ahead.

They point to Timor-Leste’s experience, which will finally be admitted in October as the 11th member nation of the regional grouping, due to the slew of political, legal and economic requirements it had to comply with.

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