Indonesia and Australia are close to signing a new defense treaty

Indonesian and Australian leaders are adjacent to signing a caller bilateral defence treaty

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Indonesian and Australian leaders said Wednesday they were adjacent to signing a caller bilateral defence treaty.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the pact during the Indonesian leader’s archetypal authorities sojourn to Australia.

Albanese said helium hoped to motion the completed pact during a sojourn to Indonesia successful January.

“The governments of Australia and Indonesia person conscionable substantively concluded negotiations connected a caller bilateral pact connected our communal security,” Albanese told reporters successful a connection with Prabowo successful Sydney.

“This pact volition perpetrate Australia and Indonesia to consult astatine a person and ministerial level connected a regular ground connected matters of security, to place and undertake mutually beneficial information activities, and if either oregon some countries’ information is threatened, to consult and see what measures whitethorn beryllium taken either individually oregon jointly, to woody with those threats,” Albanese added.

Prabowo said: “We, I think, concluded an important agreement, an important pact betwixt Australia and Indonesia.”

“Good neighbors volition assistance each different successful times of difficulties and successful the Indonesian culture, we person a saying erstwhile we look an emergency, it is our neighbour that volition assistance us,” Prabowo said.

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