PNG on track to resettle refugees: Bishop

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says refugees processed on Manus Island could soon be resettled in Papua New Guinea.

Australia Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop

Julie Bishop says refugees processed on Manus Island could soon be resettled in Papua New Guinea. (AAP)

Papua New Guinea is on track to resettle a number of asylum seekers found to be refugees, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says.

Ms Bishop discussed the resettlement of Manus Island-held asylum seekers with PNG's foreign minister Rimbink Pato on the sidelines of a Pacific forum in Sydney on Friday.

She told reporters she had been briefed on the PNG government's progress on sorting out legal issues and had been told the resettlement process is "on track".


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