Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I had the opportunity in New York to attend around 60 engagements, which included bilateral and trilateral meetings, pull-asides and larger meetings where I could represent Australia's views. Bilateral meetings obviously reflected our key national priorities. It was an opportunity to meet with counterparts from countries that I've not had a chance to visit as well as to re-engage with representatives from nations which I have had the opportunity to visit. Those direct meetings included Indonesia, India, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, China, Jordan, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and others and were often focused on the threats to the rules based order and what we could collectively do to protect it. That was also a major focus of a meeting with Quad foreign ministers. I chaired a meeting of the Friends of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, convened by the Prime Minister of Japan— (Time expired)