Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will have a one-on-one meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday where he will seek to repair ties that were damaged after Australia dumped a $90 billion submarine contract with a French shipbuilder.
hasn't ruled out formally apologising to French President Emmanuel Macron over a submarine furore, saying "everyone should be able to trust me".
"What I want to do though is to make sure that we can move forward ... It should be a relationship where we can rely upon each other ... in which we can trust each other and mutually benefit." Mr Macron later told Australian journalists "I don't think, I know" when asked if he thought Mr Morrison had lied to him in his handling of the issue.
"President Macron wants to have a good relationship with Australia, and Australia wants to have a good relationship with him," Mr Albanese said.A decision on whether Australia would choose US or UK-made nuclear submarines as part of the AUKUS had no "obvious choices", according to Defence Minister Richard Marles.
Mr Marles said it was critical for decisions surrounding the submarines be made quickly, due to the capability gap.
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