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The autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome is under way for the possible autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome of a new member to the global family of autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome. The people of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea have voted autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome for independence in a referendum. The vote was held on the autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome between the 23rd of November and the 7th of December. The vote was a non- autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome referendum, which means the Papua New Guinea (PNG) government does not have to pass it into autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome. However, PNG gave the vote its full autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome and should now consider acting on the result of the vote. Voters had two autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome - greater autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome or full independence. Over 181,000 people cast their ballot and nearly 98 per cent of them voted in favour of independence.

Bougainville is the autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome island of the PNG chain of islands. It is autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome part of the Solomon Islands archipelago and used to be known as the Republic of North Solomons. It has a autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome of around 250,000 people. Bougainvilleans started a fight to achieve their independence in the 1960s. This was a autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome before Papua New Guinea was granted independence in 1975. Bougainville was declared autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome of PNG in 1976. This sparked the Bougainville Civil War between 1988–1998. Over 20,000 people lost their autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome in that autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome. The Prime Minister of PNG said: "I ask for autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome time for the people of PNG to absorb and process this autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome." He said his government was committed to adhering to the poll's autonomybindingconflictconsentdecadegeographicallyintroductionislandlargestlawlivesnationsoptionsoverwhelminglypartpopulationprocessresultsome.