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He said there was an error that saw the contribution funds used for ongoing operations, and this is being resolved through the transfer of additional funds.

“If the journalist behind the article had checked with appropriate sources, the article on UNGA funds would not have been a story,” the Foreign Minister said in a statement.

“The remittance of funds to overseas missions involves payments for different diplomatic purposes.

“In the case of the UN contributions, the funds were simply used for other operational areas.

O’Neill told Loop PNG that funding for the UN have been in a trust account for months.

He said someone in the Foreign Affairs department is not doing his/her job which resulted in such.

PNG lost its vote in the United Nations General Assembly because it failed to pay its annual contributions of at least (K532,000) to regain voting rights.

PNG is one of six countries whose voting rights have been suspended for non-payment — the others being Venezuela, Libya, Sudan, Cape Verde and Vanuatu.

O’Neill told Loop PNG in a text message that the funding for the payment of the UN General Assembly has been sitting in a trust account for months.

“Someone in the Department of Foreign Affairs needs to explain why they did not pay,” says O’Neill.

PNG lost its vote in the United Nations General Assembly because it failed to pay its annual contributions of at least (K532,000) for its voting rights.

PNG is one of six countries whose voting rights have been suspended for non-payment — the others being Venezuela, Libya, Sudan, Cape Verde and Vanuatu.

Juffa made this call after PNG lost its vote in the United Nations General Assembly because it failed to pay its annual contributions.

PNG needs to pay the UN at least (K532,000) to regain voting rights.

PNG is one of six countries whose voting rights have been suspended for non-payment — the others being Venezuela, Libya, Sudan, Cape Verde and Vanuatu.

Juffa said once more the people of Papua New Guinea have been collectively humiliated internationally.

People are already dying of hunger, and another 1 million people are on the brink of famine, UN agencies said.

Years of civil war, a refugee crisis and a collapsing economy have taken their toll on South Sudan since it gained its independence in 2011.

Now the UN World Food Programme and nongovernmental organizations are sounding the alarm, warning that more than a million children are suffering from acute malnutrition.

Team leaders from HPS were informed that the United Nations is keen to have an ongoing relationship through the already existing programs, services and education to build awareness about SDGs with Papua New Guinean athletes and coaches.

The focus is to inform and engage them and their communities in helping to achieve the Global Goals.

“The meeting with Chika Kondoh, a Communications Specialist from the UN Resident Coordinator's Office was very forthcoming with information about the ongoing advocacy engagement by the United Nations and partnering opportunities.

Bronwyn Kili, Lydia Dimokali, and Nathan Garry have been selected as the Youth Champions for the Global Goals by the United Nations in Papua New Guinea and are generating a youth movement towards the Goals.

Last week three champions organised a workshop for representatives from the University of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, National Capital District Gender Desk, Basketball Federation Papua New Guinea, High Performance Sports, Mission Vibe, and Youth for Change.

So the language children are taught in, can often reflect broader societal inequalities, according to the Global Campaign for education.

This statement also falls in line with the appeal launched on this day by the UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova for the potential of mutli-lingual education to be acknowledged everywhere - in education and administrative systems, in cultural expressions and the media, cyberspace and trade.

A group of buses scheduled to evacuate the last civilians and rebels from eastern Aleppo has been delayed, Syrian state-run media said, blaming infighting among rebel factions.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu tweeted Tuesday that 37,500 people had been evacuated from the war-torn city so far, adding that "all evacuations are intended to be finished by tomorrow."

Both the Syrian regime and a key rebel group had said earlier they expected the evacuations to be completed Tuesday.

The school program known as “UN4U” has run for years to bring the work of the United Nations and development issues into schools to build their knowledge and expose students to global perspectives.

This year, the sessions with students focused on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, a set of global milestones to which the Government of Papua New Guinea is signatory and which cover economic, social and environmental development aspects.