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Reuters

US President Donald Trump will meet with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on May 4 in New York City as the two nations seek to repair a relationship strained by a row over an asylum seeker resettlement deal.
The meeting will be the first between the two leaders.
Relations were strained after an acrimonious telephone call shortly after Trump’s inauguration, during which Trump labelled the Australia-US resettlement swap agree to with former US President Barack Obama as a “dumb” deal.
Turnbull said the 75th anniversary of the second world war “Battle of the Coral Sea” celebrations in New York City offered a chance for the two nations to “reaffirm our alliance”.
The bilateral meeting will follow a speech by Trump aboard the USS Intrepid, an aircraft carrier turned museum on the Hudson River, to mark the anniversary of the Coral Sea battle, during which US and Australian troops fought the Japanese, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said.

Australia is one of Washington’s staunchest allies and troops from the two nations have fought alongside each other in all major conflicts, most recently Iraq and Afghanistan.
Late last year, Obama agreed to resettle up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in Australian-funded camps in the South Pacific, in exchange for Australia resettling refugees from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
‘The worst call by far’: how Trump’s phone conversation with Australia’s PM Turnbull really went
But in February, Trump criticised the deal, accusing Australia of trying to export the “next Boston bombers” under the agreement, The Washington Post reported.
Eager to repair the relationship, US Vice-President Mike Pence last week visited Australia and confirmed Washington would begrudgingly honour the refugee deal with Canberra, only out of respect for the alliance between the two countries.


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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull takes a tour during a four day visit in Mumbai, India. Photo: AP

FILE - In this Saturday, April 22, 2017, file photo, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, left, shakes hands with Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at Admiralty House in Sydney. Australia's prime minister said Tuesday he was looking forward to meeting face-to-face soon with President Donald Trump, three months after their heated telephone conversation over an Obama-era refugee deal. (Jason Reed/Pool Photo via AP)

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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Photo: Bloomberg

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Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will meet with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang this week as the latter makes a week-long visit to Australia and New Zealand. Photo: AP

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2001, file photo, men shave, brush their teeth and prepare for the day at a refugee camp on the Island of Nauru. U.S. officials had stopped screening refugees for potential resettlement in the United States but would return to the Pacific atoll of Nauru to continue working toward a deal that President Donald Trump has condemned as "dumb,” an Australian minister said on Thursday. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

A pedestrian looks at a newspaper headline regarding U.S. President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in central Sydney, Australia, February 3, 2017. REUTERS/David Gray

FILE - In the Jan. 28, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Amid the drama over a refugee resettlement deal between Australia and the United States, the White House has issued a series of conflicting statements on whether the agreement is still on, how many refugees it involves, and who, exactly, are the refugees. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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