Eighteen flags are drawn. None of them has been promised.

The Pacific Nations Flag Plaza is dimensioned on the landscape plan at 500 square metres, with eighteen flagpoles. Those are the nations the plaza is drawn to receive. Not one of them has agreed to anything, and this page says so before it says anything else.

Where this stands ↓ The eighteen ↓ Who we are asking ↓

As drawn

Dimensioned or labelled in the architectural masterplan.

Programme brief

Set out in the project brief; not yet designed or dimensioned.

What has been agreed, in full.

Nothing

There is no memorandum, no signatory, no member, no participant and no delegation. No government, university, museum, chamber, agency, company or nation has committed to this project in any form.

A drawing showing eighteen flags is a drawing of an intention. The plaza is real in the sense that it is dimensioned, sited and costed into the landscape allocation. The eighteen nations are real countries. The line between those two facts is the whole subject of this page, and the project would rather state it plainly now than have a reader discover it later.

An invitation is not an agreement. The project is at the partner and investment engagement stage. That means it is asking.

Where the project stands →

Ceremonial flag plaza with eighteen flagpoles at the head of the entrance drive, architectural visualisation — Architectural visualisation · proposed · flag plaza

The eighteen the plaza is drawn to receive.

As drawn

Pacific Nations Flag Plaza

Five hundred square metres at the head of the entrance drive, drawn for ceremony, for diplomatic welcome and for the photograph that follows both. Eighteen flagpoles stand permanently.

Read the list below as eighteen flagpoles, not as eighteen partners. No approach has been made to any of these governments and none has responded to one.

Plaza area500 m²

Flagpoles18

PositionHead of entrance drive

UseCeremonial · welcome

Agreements heldNone

Papua New Guinea

Singapore

Australia

New Zealand

Fiji

Solomon Islands

Vanuatu

Samoa

Tonga

Kiribati

Marshall Islands

Micronesia (FSM)

Tuvalu

Nauru

Palau

Cook Islands

Niue

Timor-Leste

The ground a delegation would arrive on.

As drawn

Before anyone is invited, the arrival sequence is already drawn: one gate from John Guise Drive, a security gatehouse, the flag plaza at the head of the drive, and the pavilion drawn to hold the island nations.

Interior of the proposed cultural pavilion under a timber haus tambaran roof structure, architectural visualisation

Wing B

South Pacific Islands Pavilion

The pavilion drawn to hold the island nations, under the same haus tambaran gable as Wing A, the PNG Pavilion.

Main entrance and security gatehouse from John Guise Drive, architectural visualisation

One entrance

Main entrance and gatehouse

A single gate from John Guise Drive, a 24-hour security gatehouse, visitor registration and a separate diplomatic and VIP access control.

10 bus bays

Maritime Tourism Plaza

The arrival ground for tourist groups, with ten of the 190 drawn parking lots set aside for tourist buses.

Eight categories, and what each would be looking at.

Programme brief

The brief names eight kinds of partner the project intends to approach. Each row below points at something that is actually on the plan, so the reason to take a meeting can be checked rather than taken on trust. The fourth column states the standing of that reason. No organisation of any kind is named on this site, because none is involved.

Category What it would be looking at Standing

01 Governments The site is Section 221, Lot 12 on John Guise Drive, facing Melanesia Haus, which houses the Office of the Prime Minister. Waigani is the seat of national government. Address as drawn. No government counterparty.

02 Universities A training wing of five rooms, four of them training rooms at 125 m² and 50 delegates each, with T5, a 240 m² digital innovation and agritech testing lab. Rooms dimensioned. No institution named.

03 Museums Wing A is the PNG Pavilion and Wing B the South Pacific Islands Pavilion, with a 600 m² Cultural Garden Walkway drawn to carry sculpture between them. Ground drawn. No collection or loan exists.

04 Chambers of commerce The exhibition and convention floor set out in the project brief, inside a 6,000 m² building footprint on a 1.42-hectare site. Floor is brief only. No exhibitor list.

05 Tourism organisations The Maritime Tourism Plaza, and ten of the 190 parking lots drawn as tourist-bus bays, which is what arriving groups need before anything else. Plaza and bays drawn. No operator engaged.

06 Development agencies A 1.2 MW roof solar canopy, a 2.5 MWh LFP battery vault, a net-zero power system, rainwater harvesting and sub-surface bio-retention sand filtration. Systems drawn. No facility or funding agreed.

07 Investors Public-private partnership, leasing and sponsorship structures are set out in the brief. No figure of any kind exists yet. Structure only. See /investment/.

08 Pacific Island representatives The 500 m² Pacific Nations Flag Plaza at the head of the entrance drive, and Wing B, drawn as the South Pacific Islands Pavilion. Both drawn. No nation has been approached.

Investment structures →

The region this sits inside.

Public fact · location and mandate only

Pacific regional cooperation already has an institutional map, and it is worth stating where it is, because a proposal in Port Moresby is not being made in an empty room. The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat is in Suva, Fiji. The Pacific Community is in Noumea, New Caledonia. The Melanesian Spearhead Group Secretariat is in Port Vila, Vanuatu, and the group was founded in 1986 in Goroka, Papua New Guinea, with Papua New Guinea a founding member.

Those are matters of public record. This project has no relationship with any of them. It is not a member of any of them, has not contacted any of them, and claims nothing on their behalf. They are listed here as context for a reader who wants to know what regional architecture already exists.

Papua New Guinea's own national plan, Vision 2050, sets a destiny of a smart, wise, fair, healthy and happy society by 2050. The project is designed to contribute to that plan. It is not endorsed by it, approved under it, or part of it.

Regional bodies · where they sit

Pacific Islands Forum SecretariatSuva, Fiji

The Pacific Community (SPC)Noumea, New Caledonia

Melanesian Spearhead Group SecretariatPort Vila, Vanuatu

MSG founded1986, in Goroka, Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea in the MSGA founding member

No relationship, membership, contact or endorsement is claimed with any body listed above.

The master plan in full →

Site plan of the proposed complex in top view, showing the entrance drive, the flag plaza and the two pavilions — **Site plan (top view)**The single entrance from John Guise Drive, the drop-off plaza, and the flag plaza at the head of the drive, on a 1.42-hectare site.

What a partner would be joining.

A 14,200 square metre site with a 6,000 square metre building footprint, 4,200 square metres of landscape and public space, and 190 parking lots. Two pavilions, a training wing, an expo hall, a flag plaza and a performance garden drawn for about two hundred people.

The masterplan is complete. Construction has not started. Anyone joining now is joining a proposal, which is the honest description of what is on offer and the reason the terms are still open.

Site identifiedComplete

MasterplanComplete

Partner & investment engagementCurrent stage

ConstructionNot started

Isometric aerial visualisation of the whole proposed complex, with the flag plaza at the head of the entrance drive — Architectural visualisation · proposed · isometric, whole site

Rear-right aerial visualisation of the proposed complex showing the two pavilion roofs — Architectural visualisation · proposed · rear right

Ask what a partnership would involve.

The project team is opening conversations with governments, universities, museums, chambers of commerce, tourism organisations, development agencies, investors and Pacific Island representatives. Nothing has been agreed with anyone, and no organisation is named on this site. Tell us who you are and what you would need to see. The International Partnership Package, including the standard memorandum and expression-of-interest forms, is released on request.

Section 221, Lot 12
John Guise Drive, Waigani
National Capital District
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

enquiry@pngpacificsin.org