Peace Agreements Digital Collection: Bougainville (Papua New Guinea)
Bougainville Peace Agreement
The Parties Agree as Follows:
Role and Status of This Agreement
This Agreement is the basis for drafting the constitutional amendments and other laws, which the National Government will move to provide for implementation.
The implementing Constitutional and other laws will state that they are intended to give legal effect to this Agreement.
This Agreement:
will be used as a guide for implementation and to assist the Courts in interpreting the Constitutional and other laws, which give legal effect to this agreement;
is intended to be interpreted liberally, by reference to its intentions, and without undue reference to technical rules of construction.
Posted by USIP Library on: April 9 2002
Source Name: Text e-mailed from the Adviser to the Papua New Guinea Government on the Bougainville Peace Process
Date e-mailed: October 31 2001
