Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has failed to secure a bilateral meeting with the US president during his visit to the UN General Assembly in New York.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday, Australian time, that the US president would hold bilateral meetings with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen.

But no meeting with Mr Albanese is planned, leaving the Prime Minister to compete for face time at a reception hosted by Mr Trump, attended by dozens of other world leaders.

Mr Trump will also meet Argentina’s president Javier Milei, and hold multilateral meetings with the leaders of Pakistan, Indonesia, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

Australian officials had downplayed the prospect of a meeting with Mr Trump while Mr Albane

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