Key Points
- US President Donald Trump left the G7 top in Canada before they had conversations with leaders from different countries.
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said that the president’s decision was “completely understandable”.
- Albanian is considering attending the upcoming NATO top, who can offer another chance to meet Trump.
Albanian said that Australia was not the only country that had his meeting with the American leader again planned.
Albanian revealed that although he had met American officials at night, Trump had not had direct contact with regard to the canceled meeting.
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“Yes, that is being considered,” said Albanese, responding to SBS News’s questions about whether NATO top was on the agenda.
Although the meeting of Anthony Albanese with Donald Trump was canceled, he met the American Minister of Finance Scott Bessent at night. Source: Delivered / Australian government
At night, Albanese met the American Minister of Finance Scott Bessent, director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett and the American trade representative Jamieson Greer.
The ambassador of Australia in the US Kevin Rudd was also in the conversations, the prime minister said that they were concentrated on supporting the US on critical minerals and “Australia’s position on rates”, which repeated the history of free trade and a trade surplus.
New partnership for safety and defense with the EU
“And we will advance our respective ministers in the coming weeks. But we hope to conclude those discussions fairly quickly.”
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