Australian government to provide 19 new patrol boats to combat transnational crimes

By Semi Turaga

14/08/2017

(Photo: ABC).

The Australian government is to provide 19 new patrol boats for the Pacific to combat new forms of transnational crimes in the region.

Foreign Affairs Minister, Julie Bishop, has told a Pacific Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting in Suva that they will table a plan for greater regional security at next month's Pacific Islands Forum Leaders' meeting in Samoa.

Source: BBC

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