sentences:  It is significant that he received as governor of East Sepik in 2014 the Japanese prime minister in Wewak who laid a wreath remembering Japanese war dead, These sympathies for Japan did not deter him from opening diplomatic relations with China soon after independence.Indonesia is the second country that figured large in international relations during the Somare era, but that was not because of buoyant international ties.PNG mainly attempted to remain as passive as possible towards the violent conflict between proponents of West Papua independence and the Indonesian government..