Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Australia is promoting and supporting our shared vision for the Indo-Pacific region, including through cooperation with partners like the United Kingdom and Europe. Late last month Minister Dutton and I hosted the Australia-United Kingdom Ministerial Consultations, in Sydney. We had substantive discussions about deepening strategic cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and secured new agreements with the United Kingdom on cybercooperation and sustainable infrastructure investment in the Indo-Pacific. As well I had meetings in December at the G7, in Liverpool, with the world's most influential liberal democracies, and meetings with and visits to counterparts in Greece, the European Union, in Belgium and in Austria.

This month I will attend the Munich Security Conference, in Germany, and the European Union ministerial forum for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, in Paris. These discussions underline Australia's commitment to cooperation with the EU and other like-minded countries in support of the rules based order.