Papua New Guinea's foreign policy reflects close ties with Australia and other traditional allies and cooperative relations with neighboring countries. Its views on international political and economic issues are generally moderate.
In many countries, the ministry of foreign affairs is the highest government department exclusively or primarily responsible for the state's foreign policy and relations, diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support, including consular services, for a country's citizens who are abroad. The entity is usually headed by a foreign minister or minister of foreign affairs. The foreign minister typically reports to the head of government.
International governments are divided on the issue of recognition of the independence of Kosovo from Serbia, which was declared in 2008. The Government of Serbia does not diplomatically recognise Kosovo as a sovereign state, although the two countries have enjoyed normalised economic relations since 2020 and have agreed not to try to interfere with the other's accession to the European Union.
Foreign relations exist between Australia and Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea is Australia's closest neighbour and a former colony of Australia. Both nations share the same continent in the Oceania region. Papua New Guinea has developed much closer relations with Australia than with Indonesia, the only country which it shares a land border with. The two countries are Commonwealth realms. In contemporary times, Papua New Guinea is one of the largest recipients of Australian aid. Some critics have pointed to instances where this has led to an outsized Australian influence on Papua New Guinea politics.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia or commonly known by its abbreviation Kemlu, is an Indonesian government ministry responsible for the country's foreign politics and diplomacy. The ministry was formerly known as the Department of Foreign Affairs until 2008 when the nomenclature changed with the enactment of the 2008 State Ministry Act.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, and Francophone Affairs is a ministry of the Government of Equatorial Guinea. The current minister is Simeón Oyono Esono Angue, appointed in 2018.
Sir John Pundari is a Papua New Guinean politician. He has been Speaker of the National Parliament (1997–1999), Deputy Prime Minister (1999), Minister for Foreign Affairs (2001), and has served as the Minister of Finance and Rural Development from 20 December 2020 to 2021.
Guinea–India relations are the bilateral relations between Guinea and India. India maintained an embassy in Conakry, but shut it down after more than 2 decades of operation in 1988. Subsequently, the Embassy of India in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire was jointly accredited to Guinea. Guinea opened its embassy in New Delhi in April 2012. India has maintained an honorary consul in Guinea since 1989.
Equatorial Guinea and India maintain diplomatic relations.
Guinea-Bissau–India relations refers to the international relations that exist between Guinea-Bissau and India. The embassy of India in Dakar, Senegal is concurrently accredited to Guinea-Bissau. India opened an Honorary Consulate in Bissau on 28 May 2010. Guinea-Bissau has no diplomatic mission in India.
Suzi Barbosa is a Bissau-Guinean politician, who is corrently Special Adviser of the President of the Republic for Foreign Affairs. She was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2023 and was appointed Minister 4 times. Before she Secretary of State for International Cooperation and also Diplomatic and Political Adviser for the Prime Minister Aristides Gomes. From 2014 till 2023 she was member of parliament elected 3 times and also Chair of the Women Parliamentarians Network of Guinea-Bissau.
The nations of Equatorial Guinea and Mexico established diplomatic relations in 1975. Both nations are members of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, Organization of Ibero-American States and the United Nations.
Guinea–Spain relations are the bilateral and diplomatic relations between these two countries. Guinea has an embassy in Madrid and honorary consulate in Barcelona, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Valencia. Spain has an embassy in Conakry.
Guinea-Bissau–Spain relations are the bilateral and diplomatic relations between these two countries.
Equatorial Guinea–Israel relations are the bilateral relations between Equatorial Guinea and Israel. The Israeli embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon, is accredited to Equatorial Guinea. Equatorial Guinea has a resident embassy in Israel, which opened in 2019 and located in Herzliya.
