Relationship dossier
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Relationship assessment
Practical cooperation has included agreements on agriculture, fisheries and technical cooperation.
Papua New Guinea toward Philippines
+25During Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s 2015 visit to the Philippines, Papua New Guinea entered agreements with the Philippines covering areas including agriculture, fisheries and technical cooperation.
Philippines toward Papua New Guinea
+25The Philippines entered agreements with Papua New Guinea during Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s 2015 visit, covering areas including agriculture, fisheries and technical cooperation.
Overall relationship
+25The bilateral relationship includes practical cooperation formalized in agreements on agriculture, fisheries and technical cooperation during a high-level visit in 2015. The breadth and implementation of these arrangements are unclear, limiting the basis for a stronger assessment.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Papua New Guinea and the Philippines have pursued practical cooperation, including agreements signed during Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s 2015 visit to the Philippines. Those agreements covered areas including agriculture, fisheries and technical cooperation. The known examples support a cooperative assessment, though the scope and continuity of implementation are unclear.
Key developments
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O’Neill visited the Philippines, and the two governments signed agreements covering areas including agriculture, fisheries and technical cooperation.
Major uncertainties
- The extent to which the 2015 cooperation agreements were implemented is unclear.
- The scope of other government-to-government cooperation is uncertain.