Relationship dossier
Papua New Guinea
United Kingdom
Relationship assessment
Bilateral relations include United Kingdom humanitarian assistance, while the scope of wider government cooperation is unclear.
Papua New Guinea toward United Kingdom
Not assessedUnited Kingdom toward Papua New Guinea
+10The United Kingdom provided humanitarian assistance to Papua New Guinea following the 2018 earthquake. The scope and continuity of other direct bilateral cooperation are unclear.
Overall relationship
Not assessedHow 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 United Kingdom are both Commonwealth members, but that shared membership alone does not establish substantive bilateral cooperation. The United Kingdom has provided humanitarian assistance to Papua New Guinea following the 2018 earthquake. Specific Papua New Guinean government actions toward the United Kingdom are unclear.
Key developments
The United Kingdom provided humanitarian assistance to Papua New Guinea following a major earthquake.
Major uncertainties
- The scope of direct Papua New Guinean government cooperation with the United Kingdom is unclear.
- The scale and continuity of United Kingdom assistance to Papua New Guinea are unclear.