Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will meet US President Donald Trump on board an aircraft carrier in New York next week, in the pair’s first face-to-face encounter.
Key points:
- Donald Trump looks forward to meeting Malcolm Turnbull, White House says
- Mr Turnbull says he is “delighted” to meet Mr Trump and “reaffirm our alliance”
- He says he will discuss “serious threat from a reckless, dangerous regime in North Korea”
The meeting on board the USS Intrepid — a World War II aircraft carrier which now serves as a floating museum in the Hudson River — comes after a testy phone call earlier in the year over a refugee deal between the two countries.
At the time Mr Trump described that call, in which the pair discussed details of the refugee deal between Australia and the US, as “the worst by far” of his early calls with foreign leaders.
The May 4 (US time) meeting on the Intrepid will be part of the 75th anniversary commemorations for the Battle of the Coral Sea, in which US and Australian naval and air forces took on the Imperial Japanese Navy.
“The President will hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of Australia,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said.
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