Taiwan suspends LNG from PNG over office closure

By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter Add TT as Preferred Source The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) yesterday said it has temporarily suspended spot market purchases of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Papua New Guinea (PNG) after the country’s foreign minister earlier this month unilaterally announced that Taiwan’s representative office there would be closed.PNG Minister of Foreign Affairs Justin Tkatchenko on July 16 said that his government had decided to close Taiwan’s representative office in Port Moresby.The cessation of operations and the formal closure of the physical presence of Taiwan’s representative office was an “administrative action” to “reaffirm Papua New Guinea’s one China policy,” a statement posted on Tkatchenko’s Facebook page said. A handout photo dated May 17, 2011, made