Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

As I said on Sky News about midday today, I did investigate. A letter was sent from the Kurdish representative in Canberra which was received by my office on 18 August. I was, in fact, in Singapore and because it did not come from an accredited diplomat or a nation-state it was sent to the lawyers to consider the status of the letter. I was not aware of the letter this morning, but I was aware of the request that had been considered by our National Security Committee. So the subject of the letter has been considered by our National Security Committee, but the existence of the letter was indeed sent to our lawyers to determine its status because it is not from a sovereign government, nor from an accredited diplomat in Canberra.

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