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- ↑ "Our High Commissioner". UK in PNG via The National Archives. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013.
- ↑ "Simon David Tonge, British High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea". gov.uk.
- ↑ "Change of British High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 30 May 2018.
- ↑ "Port Moresby British High Commission staff welcomed new High Commissioner, Keith Scott and his family to Papua New Guineaa". UK in the South Pacific. 21 September 2018.
