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Marles will represent Australia at next week’s NATO summit after Anthony Albanese decided against travelling to the Hague in the hope of securing an elusive face-to-face-meeting with Donald Trump.

Albanese’s scheduled meeting with Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit was abruptly cancelled after the US president rushed back to Washington to deal with the Middle East crisis.

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