THE PNG government under the Ministry of foreign affairs in collaboration with the Department of Communication and Information Technology has successfully launched the PNG Expo website in partnership with Dubai that will now be used to promote PNG to the world.
The expo is a head start for the upcoming World Expo in Dubai, October 2021.
Commissioner General of the Dubai Expo, Ambassador Joshua Kalinoe said yesterday (July 08) the website is one of PNG’s gate ways to the world through the connection that is now established between PNG and Dubai.
“PNG is not fully exposed and how can we attract tourists and partners. This exposition is the first were our story will be told to the sustainable groups about our natural resources. We are the country of opportunity and diversity with its beauty that the story we are going to tell. It is about us, the people of PNG and what we are capable of doing in all aspects of life that is what the expo is about,” said Kalinoe.
Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Soroi Eoe was very pleased and said with the website launched it would inclusively promote formal and the informal sectors with local brands in the world market.
“This expo must be different. It is imaging how we present our country to the world and must be different from the past. We cannot live on borrowed money. We must invite private sectors to promote and look for the market in Dubai and the world,” Eoe said.
He added that the government has made many promises since 2017 but have not moved and now the government using Covid-19 as an excuse for all this. However the website will be a key transporter that will promote tourism and the PNG brand to the global market.
The exposition will include young native Papua New Guineans who have ideas that can be turned into reality to promote PNG in the global market.
The website can be can be accessed through smart computer devices that is connected to the internet to view the content that is purposely to promote PNG to the world.
Meanwhile, the PNG Defence Force is playing a key role in moving PNG products in time for display at the opening of the 2021 Dubai Expo on October 1.