CANBERRA, ACT, July 8 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA: Prime Minister Fakafanua, you are very welcome here in Australia. This is our first meeting, but, of course, Australia and Tonga have such a warm and long friendship. We're all part of the Pacific family and that is why I'm so pleased to welcome you here. Indeed there is, of course, the people-to-people connections are so strong, including in my local electorate in the inner western suburbs of Sydney, where there's a substantial diaspora as well. The relationship that we have in dealing with climate change, we will discuss at the pre-COP meeting that will be held in Fiji, and then, of course, again at ...