Yash Ghai is the Sir YK Pao Professor of Public Law at the University of Hong Kong. He was an adviser on the independence Constitution of Papua New Guinea and subsequently helped to negotiate The Bougainville Agreement of 1976.

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Accord Issue 12: Papua New Guinea-Bougainville

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