US President Donald Trump has indicated he is set to meet Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
“Your leader is coming over to see me very soon,” Mr Trump told an Australian reporter while speaking to journalists as he left the White House for a visit to the United Kingdom.
Mr Trump did not mention when he would meet Mr Albanese.
The Australian prime minister is preparing to travel to New York in coming days for the United Nations General Assembly, where a meeting on the sidelines with Mr Trump was considered a possibility.
Mr Trump praised Mr Albanese as a “good man” after the two leaders held their fourth one-on-one phone call earlier in September.
The prime minister described his call with Mr Trump as “really warm”.
A face-to-face meeting between the two leaders had been planned on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Canada in June but was cancelled after Mr Trump returned to the US early to deal with the Iran-Israel conflict.
The UNGA “high-level week” starts in New York on September 22.
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