{"id":6691,"date":"2017-04-10T05:16:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T09:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=6691"},"modified":"2017-04-10T05:16:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T09:16:45","slug":"manus-detention-centre-asylum-seekers-close-years-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/04\/10\/manus-detention-centre-asylum-seekers-close-years-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Manus detention centre for asylum seekers to close by year\u2019s end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By MALUM NALU<\/strong><br \/>\nTHE Manus detention centre for asylum seekers will be closed by the end of the year, according to Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.<br \/>\nHowever, neither he nor Prime Minister Peter O\u2019Neill could say with certainty what would happen to the asylum seekers.\u00a0 Turnbull thanked O\u2019Neill for his government\u2019s continued support in the campaign against people smuggling.\u00a0 \u201cWe will continue to work together to close the regional processing centre by the end of the year,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe Australian prime minister thanked O\u2019Neill \u201cfor Papua New Guinea\u2019s significant progress on the resettlement of refugees\u201d on Manus.<br \/>\nOn the issue of resettlement, O\u2019Neill said he would be guided by the Australian government on the arrangement reached with the United States.<br \/>\n\u201cIf we can resettle many of the refugees to a third country like the US in the future, we welcome that,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nTurnbull said the two leaders had discussed the resettlement issue.<br \/>\n\u201cAs you know, there is a resettlement process of assessment, with resettlement in the US underway,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cWe look forward to the completion of that work by the US.\u201d<br \/>\nAsked how many asylum seekers would be resettled in PNG, O\u2019Neill said: \u201cThere are already some refugees who have been resettled in PNG.<br \/>\n\u201cMany of our local businesses have tried to take up as many of the professionals who are able to work in PNG.\u00a0 But as you know, many of the refugees are not willing to settle in PNG.\u00a0 You can\u2019t force people in the resettlement exercise when they are not able to accept our offer.\u00a0 But if a third country is willing to accept their resettlement, we are quite happy to participate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.com.pg\/centre-close-years-end\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.thenational.com.pg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">By MALUM NALU THE Manus detention centre for asylum seekers will be closed by the end of the year, according to Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. However, neither he nor Prime Minister Peter O\u2019Neill could <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/04\/10\/manus-detention-centre-asylum-seekers-close-years-end\/\" title=\"Manus detention centre for asylum seekers to close by year\u2019s end\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[3243],"class_list":{"0":"post-6691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human-rights","8":"category-news","9":"tag-manus-detention-centre","10":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6694,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691\/revisions\/6694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}