Mark Vaile (Lyne, National Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

The point that I was making was that there might have been media reports but it was important that an Australian government minister participated in a direct personal meeting with an Iraqi government minister to confirm the relationship and the arrangements that would continue to exist in trade between our two countries—where you could stand face to face, eyeball to eyeball, and shake hands on an arrangement that was being put in place.

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