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Pope Francis has called for natural resources to benefit the “entire community” of the developing countries where they are being extracted, not just international corporations. The 87-year-old head of the Catholic Church, currently in Papua New Guinea as part of a major foreign trip in South-East Asia and Oceania, on Saturday met with local authorities, civil society representatives and diplomats in the capital Port Moresby. He stressed that it was “necessary” to involve international corporations in the extraction of natural resources. However, “It is only right that the needs of local people…

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