Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will meet US President Donald Trump in Washington next month, the White House has told the ABC.
A White House official has confirmed that the two leaders will meet on October 20.
This would involve a stand-alone trip by the Prime Minister to Washington, rather than a meeting on the sidelines of another international gathering in what is known as "summit season" - the months at the end of the year dominated on the global stage by a series of international summits.
Confirmation of the meeting comes after months of questions about the fact that there has not been a meeting between the two leaders since Mr Trump’s return to the White House in January.
They were scheduled to meet on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in Canada in June.
But President Trump cut short his time in Canada in order to return to the US capital, amid intensifying hostilities between Israel and Iran.
The Prime Minister’s office had been briefing journalists before Mr Albanese left Australia that they didn’t expect a meeting in New York during the current UN General Assembly but they were confident a meeting would take place.
ABC
