Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

As both the President’s spokesman and I, together with the US ambassador, have indicated, the conversation with the President of the United States was explicitly about the G20. The fact that the meeting was subsequently convened for the G20, I think, reflects appropriately on the President’s leadership. Any suggestion that the President did not understand the significance of the G20 was simply not accurate, because he did. Furthermore—

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