PAPUA New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says it will take time before legislation to repeal the nation's controversial sorcery act is brought before parliament.
Mr O'Neill said while he hoped to have the law dismantled during the current session of parliament, it will likely take longer.
"We're starting to work at it," he said in response to a question in Port Moresby on Thursday.
"We have quite a lot of issues on the table, so please give us a chance to work on it.
"Hopefully this session of parliament, but I cannot guarantee it. Realistically, a few sessions away, we will be able to put an act to parliament to stop this nonsense about witchcraft and all the other sorceries that are really barbaric in itself."
PNG has come under increased international pressure to repeal the act, which critics say is being used as a defence by people accused of killing alleged sorcerers.
Last week in Bougainville, former primary school teacher Helen Rumbali was decapitated by a mob in the autonomous region's south after they accused her of using witchcraft to murder a colleague.
Police say two other women were stabbed and a third suffered a severe wound to her neck during a violent three-day "interrogation" by their accusers.
Police were powerless to save the women.
In another widely reported incident earlier this year, 20-year-old mother of one Kepari Leniata was tortured, stripped and burned alive by a crowd on the outskirts of the Western Highlands capital Mt Hagen.
Amnesty international, the US embassy and the Australian high commission in Port Moresby strongly condemned Ms Leniata's murder.
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