Vanuatu PNG community celebrate independence day

A show of unity for Papua New Guineans who call the Republic of Vanuatu - home, as they chant with pride through Port Vila CBD to celebrate forty- nine years of independence.

Thousands of miles away from home, the distance across the Pacific Ocean is never a deep obstacle, to drown the nationalistic pride, marked every year, on the sixteenth of September in Vanuatu.

The PNG diaspora dressed in the national colors, chanted with pride in the heart of Vanuatu capital, walking through, Kumul Highway to the Melanesian Spearhead Group Secretariate office for flag raising and the national pledge, standing united with millions of Papua New Guinean's worldwide, as free people, since 1975.

Vanuatu Mobile Force Band lead the PNG Independence commemoration, along the highway significant to the history of both nations, a memory of P-N-G's support for Vanuatu push for their own, independence.

After the flag raising, the same speech read hours earlier by Prime Minister James Marape at Independence Hill in Port Moresby was read, reminding Papua New Guineans living in Vanuatu to remain united as one people and one nation.