US President Joe Biden will visit Australia next month with Sydney to host the 2023 Quad leaders’ summit.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that the summit will take place on May 24.
Alongside Biden, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will also attend the meeting of key Indo-Pacific partners.
”I am honoured to host the first ever Quad Leaders’ Summit in Australia in Sydney,” Albanese said.
“Leveraging our collective strengths helps Australia advance its interests and more effectively respond to the region’s needs. We are always better off when we act together with our close friends and partners.”
Albanese did not mention China in his announcement today, but the Quad partnership is widely viewed as having been born out of a shared resistance to Beijing’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific.
The leaders’ meeting will take place at the Sydney Opera House.
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“For the days before, during, and after, there will be a world showcase on this city and on our nation of Australia,” Albanese said.
“This, I regard as a real opportunity for us, which will have spinoffs, we will be discussing the global economic environment that we know is under pressure due to global inflationary pressures.
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“We know that we live in a more insecure world, with strategic competition in our region, with the ongoing impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
Albanese attended the 2022 Quad leaders’ meeting shortly after his election as prime minister.
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