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Indonesian And Australian leaders said Wednesday they are close to signing a new bilateral defense treaty.
Indonesian President prabowo subianto and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese The agreement was announced during the first state visit of an Indonesian leader to Australia.
Albanese said he hoped to sign the full treaty during a visit to Indonesia in January.
“The governments of Australia and Indonesia have just completed negotiations on a new bilateral treaty on our common security,” Albanese told reporters in a statement accompanying Prabowo. sydney,
“This treaty will commit Australia and Indonesia to consult on a regular basis at a leader and ministerial level on security matters, to identify and undertake mutually beneficial security activities, and, if the security of either or both countries is threatened, to consult and consider what measures might be taken individually or jointly to address those threats,” Albanese said.
Prabowo said: “I think we have concluded an important agreement, an important treaty between Australia and Indonesia.”
“Good neighbors will help each other in times of difficulties and in Indonesian culture, we have a saying that when we face an emergency, it is our neighbor who will help us,” Prabowo said.