The Quad leaders summit, originally scheduled to be held in Sydney next week, will be held in Hiroshima on Saturday night, the White House says.
The White House confirmed the summit between Mr Albanese, US president Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be held on the sidelines of the G7 Summit around 8pm on Saturday.
Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese met with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on the first day of the G7 Leaders’ Summit.of the security grouping would be held during the weekend while he was in Hiroshima. On Wednesday, Mr Biden cancelled his trip to Sydney, scheduled for next week, saying he needed to be in Washington DC to break the impasse in Congress over the US debt ceiling, forcing the meeting to be shifted to Hiroshima where all four world leaders would be in attendance at the G7 Summit anyway.
Mr Albanese met with Brazil’s new leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday afternoon.
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