The media in Papua New Guinea has been decrying the cost of close to $1 million to taxpayers for some 30 officials to travel to London for the coronation of King Charles
Two foreign ministry officials also traveled with Tkatchenko, who had been asked by Marape to represent PNG in his place. Media and online news sites in PNG, a Pacific island member of the Commonwealth, have been running hot with insults and criticism of the cost of travel since Saturday's coronation in London's Westminster Abbey, with many saying the money would have been better spent on hospitals.
Papua New Guinea s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko stepped down Friday following criticism of his state-funded trip to King Charles III s coronation and for calling his detractors "primitive animals".
The media in Papua New Guinea has been decrying the cost of close to $1 million to taxpayers for some 30 officials to travel to London for the coronation of King Charles