Biden welcoming Australian leader to White House for state dinner in October

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will welcome Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to the White Home on Oct. 25 for the go to and state dinner that the U.S. promised when Biden needed to scrap a cease in Australia earlier this yr to concentrate on debt restrict talks in Washington.

White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated in a press release Wednesday that the go to would “underscore the deep and enduring alliance between the USA and Australia and the 2 nations’ shared dedication to supporting an open, steady and affluent Indo-Pacific.”

Biden final Might curtailed an Asia-Pacific journey that was to have included stops in Australia and Papua New Guinea as a result of he wanted to return to Washington due to the debt restrict disaster.

The scuttling of two of the three legs of the abroad journey — Biden did go to Japan for a Group of Seven summit with leaders of among the world’s main economies — was a overseas coverage setback for an administration that has made placing a higher concentrate on the Pacific area central to its international outreach.

Albanese stated in a press release his go to can be “an essential alternative to debate our formidable local weather and clear vitality transition, and shared aim of a robust, safe and affluent Indo-Pacific.”