They have agreed on the criteria for non-Bougainville residents to take part in the Referendum.
In the recent JSB meeting held in Arawa, both the Government of Papua New Guinea and the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, under section 55, 1 of the Organic Law on Peace Building in Bougainville, agreed on two criteria to determine the links with Bougainville, that a non-resident Bougainvillean must have in order to vote at the Referendum.
The first criteria is that; the person is a Bougainvillean, as defined in section 7, 1 of the Bougainville Constitution.
