Foreign Secretary Penny Wong and Defense Secretary Richard Marles, heavyweights in Anthony Albanese’s Australian government. PHILIP FONG/AFP
DECREASING – Australia’s foreign and defense ministers meet their French counterparts in Paris on Monday.
Without questioning his new alliance with the British and Americans under the Aukus Pact, or his predecessor’s choice to opt for nuclear submarines over conventionally powered submersibles, what the French Naval Group did before the unilateral cancellation of that called the “treaty of the century” in Paris, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, elected last May, made warming relations with Paris one of his priorities on the international stage.
Two of his government’s heavyweights, Penny Wong, his foreign minister, and Richard Marles, his defense minister, are in Paris on Monday to meet their counterparts Catherine Colonna and Sébastien Lecornu as part of a “2+2” meeting. the latest version of which has left very bitter memories in France.
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It was the end of August 2021, and at the end of which the four ministers signed a joint press release stating…
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