Ano Pala

Ano Pala is a Papuan of New Guinea - politician.

He represents the electoral district in the province of Central Rigo in the Parliament of Papua New Guinea for the National Alliance Party. In May 2010 he was Attorney General and Minister of Justice in the government of Prime Minister Michael Somare. He replaced Allan Marat, who resigned after he criticized the government's policies. Pala was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Regional Planning and Mining, Puka Temu.

In 2009, he publicly supported the Governor of the province of the Eastern Highlands, Malcolm Smith Kela, the government had invited " to intervene to protect them from the Asian business people, our citizens ," which he claimed, " the locals " by selling " cheap and counterfeit products force damage "and their employees to work too many hours for low wages. Pala added that locals should be assisted in starting their own business: There would be a " need to empower our education system to teach some of the basics, how to make money how to run a business and how to ampersand in schools knowledge and skills about business provides. "

On August 8, 2011, Pala Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration in the government of Peter O'Neill.