Australian
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the move would agree to refugees there
to "have a fresh start".
Australia
made a 2013 agreement to provide PNG with help if it agreed to house a custody center and resettle refugees.
Australia
sends asylum seekers arriving by boat to camps in PNG and the soothing nation
of Nauru for processing.
However,
circumstances in the camps have been strongly criticized by UN agencies and
rights groups.
"Consistent
with the RRA (Regional Resettlement Arrangement), persons transferred to PNG,
who are found to be refugees, will be resettled in PNG. No-one will be
resettled in Australia," Mr. Dutton said in a speech.
"The
PNG government has shown... ...its promise to permit those found to be refugees to
get on with their lives and have a fresh start in this dynamic nation with a
growing financial system."